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Journals Kept by Mr. Gully and Capt. Denham during a Captivity in China in the Year 1842 (Paperback)
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Journals Kept by Mr. Gully and Capt. Denham during a Captivity in China in the Year 1842 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
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Published in 1844, this extraordinary book consists of the diaries
of Robert Gully and Captain Denham, the Commander of the merchant
vessel Ann, who were imprisoned in China in 1842, and notes
exchanged between the two men (who were held captive in separate
places). After some months of imprisonment, Gully was murdered, but
Denham survived and was eventually released. The book, edited by 'a
barrister', was designed to inform the British public of 'matters
of which hitherto they have had slender but doubtful accounts', and
to apply political and diplomatic pressure on the Chinese
government, whose official account of the incident denied any
wrong-doing by its representatives. Gully had distinguished himself
in the taking of Ningpo during the Opium War of 1841-2, and later
boarded the Ann to return to Macao. The vessel was subsequently
wrecked off Formosa (Taiwan), where events related in the book
occurred.
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