Chinese Junks and Other Native Craft
Chinese Junks and Other Native Craft

Author: Ivon A. Donnelly

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9789888552306

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The 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.

The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period
The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period

Author: Sze Hang Choi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-03

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9004341161

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Focusing 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 Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and British diplomatic records in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Sze Hang Choi convincingly shows how these private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.

Trade and Society
Trade and Society

Author: Ng Chin-keong

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2014-11-28

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9971697734

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The 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.