Chinese Junks and Other Native Craft
Author: Ivon Arthur Donnelly
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Published: 1936
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Author: Ivon Arthur Donnelly
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Published: 1936
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789888552306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sailing junk was an amazing vessel. From Tientsin to Hong Kong--and up and down the great rivers in between--Ivon A. Donnelly immortalized these lost treasures in this book from 1924, with a pen and sketchpad and with words that betray his passion for the ancient watercraft of China. Vivid and graceful, grotesque and gay, junks were supremely honed for their particular work. But time and new technology took their toll and the junk is today all but extinct.
Author: Ivon Arthur Donnelly
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 162
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sze Hang Choi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-07-03
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9004341161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta and West River in the last two decades of the late Qing period, this work tells a vivid trading and competition story of previously unknown private Chinese traders and junk masters. This challenges the prevailing view of the domination of China’s maritime trade by modern foreign steamships. Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and British diplomatic records in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Sze Hang Choi convincingly shows how these private Chinese traders flexibly adopted to the foreign-dominated maritime customs agencies and treaty port system in defending their Chinese homeland stronghold against the invasion of foreign economic power.
Author: James Prinsep
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 564
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ng Chin-keong
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2014-11-28
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9971697734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book examines the social and economic changes in south Fukien (Fujian) on the southeast coast of China during late imperial times. Faced with land shortages and overpopulation, the rural population of south Fukien turned to the sea in search of fresh opportunities to secure a livelihood. With the tacit support of local officials and the scholar gentry, the merchants played the pivotal role in long-distance trade, and the commercial networks they established spanned the entire China coast, making the port city of Amoy (Xiamen) a major centre for maritime trade. In the work, the author discusses four interrelated spheres of activity, namely, the traditional rural sector, the port cities, the coastal trade and the overseas trade links. He argues that the creative use of clan organizations was key to the growth of the Amoy network along the coast as well as overseas.
Author: Boston Public Library
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 380
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9004203346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a series of rich case studies focused on mobile laborers, this book demonstrates how the regional migrations of the early modern era came to be connected, contributing to the creation of an increasingly integrated nineteenth-century world.