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'In August 1855, sixteen-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost forty years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries. In the first four volumes of these diaries, collected here by Benjamin Penny, the teenage Alabaster recorded his thoughts and observations, told himself anecdotes, and exploded in outbursts of anger and frustration. He was young and enthusiastic, and the everyday sights, sounds and smells of Hong Kong were novel to him. He describes how the Chinese people around him ironed clothes, dried flour and threshed rice; how they gambled, prepared their food and made bean curd; and what opera, new year festivities and the birthday of the Heavenly Empress were like. Like many a young Victorian, he was also a keen observer of natural history, fascinated by fireflies and ants, corals and sea slugs, and the volcanic origins of the landscape. Alabaster's diaries are a unique, vibrant and riveting record of life in the young British colony on the cusp of the Second Opium War. With A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong, Penny sheds new light on the history of the region.' - From publisher website.
Diplomats --- English diaries --- Diplomatic and consular service, British --- Diplomates --- Journaux intimes anglais --- Service diplomatique et consulaire britannique --- Diplomatic relations --- Alabaster, Chaloner, --- 1840-1842 --- China --- Great Britain --- Hong Kong (China) --- Chine --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Foreign relations --- Histoire --- Relations extérieures
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In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. This book explores the depths of each man, their complicated and sometimes inconsistent internal workings, and their achievements and failures.
Businesspeople -- Great Britain -- Biography. --- Hommes d''affaires -- Grande-Bretagne. --- Jardine, Matheson & Co -- Histoire. --- Jardine, Matheson & Co. -- History. --- Jardine, William, -- 1784-1843. --- Matheson, James, -- 1796-1878. --- Local Commerce --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Businesspeople --- Jardine, William, --- Matheson, James, --- Great Britain --- China --- History --- Hommes d'affaires --- Jardine, Matheson & Co. --- Jardine, Matheson & Co --- History. --- Histoire. --- Matheson, James Nicolas Sutherland, --- Jardine, Matheson and Company, ltd. --- Jardine, Matheson, and Company --- Iwa Yōkō --- I ho yang hang (Hong Kong) --- Cha-tien Mai-ti-hsün kung ssu --- Cha-tien Mai-ti-hsün ku fen yu hsien kung ssu --- Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Opium War (China : 1840-1842) --- E-books --- Grande-Bretagne --- Histoire --- S04/0725 --- S10/0210 --- S10/0692 --- China: History--Opium War and 1840 -1860 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: before 1840 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--United Kingdom-China economic relations --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ
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