Author: Ivon Arthur DonnellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Addicts
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Author: Ivon Arthur Donnelly
Author: Ivon A. DonnellyChinese Junks and Other Native Craft
Author: Ivon A. DonnellyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789888552306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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.
Author: United States. Congress. HouseThe Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period
Author: Sze Hang ChoiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004341161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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 Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and British diplomatic records in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Sze Hang Choi convincingly shows how these private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.
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Author: Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Author: James Prinsep
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