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China Hands and Old Cantons - Britons and the Middle Kingdom (Hardcover)
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China Hands and Old Cantons - Britons and the Middle Kingdom (Hardcover)
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Early encounters between Britain and China are best known for
igniting the First Opium War. Yet they also produced an enormous
archive of writings by Britons who spent time in China. Frustrated
with the restrictions imposed by the Manchu rulers of the Qing
Empire, and unable to live or travel elsewhere apart from Canton
and Macao, these diplomats, traders, missionaries, travelers, and
military officers devoted thousands of pages to understanding
China, its people, and their civilization. In China Hands and Old
Cantons, John M. Carroll draws on this wealth of memoirs,
ethnographic studies, travel accounts, narratives of military
action, translations, and newspaper articles to trace Britons'
wide-ranging, often thoughtful perspectives on China, long before
anyone considered going to war. They discussed almost everything
they saw and speculated about much of what they could not
see-including the size of China's massive population, the extent of
infanticide, the origins and practice of foot binding, and the
legality and morality of the opium trade. They claimed that only
those who had been there could truly understand the Middle Kingdom
and that their firsthand experience gave them and their
publications an advantage over those in Britain and elsewhere.
Carroll brings a seminal period in the Anglo-Chinese relationship,
which revolved around tea and opium, to life through the words of
those who experienced it intimately.
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