Author: Ivon Arthur DonnellyPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Book Description
Chinese 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: Ivon Arthur Donnelly
Author: Ivon A. DonnellyThe 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 Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and British diplomatic records in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Sze Hang Choi convincingly shows how these private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.
Author: Trade and Society
Author: Ng Chin-keongPublisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9971697734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
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.
Author: Boston Public LibraryConnecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004203346
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
With 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.
The Zuni Enigma
Author: Nancy Yaw DavisPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393322309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Did a group of 13th century Japanese journey to the American Southwest, there to merge with the people, language, and religion of the Zuni tribe? That is the question proposed by an anthropologist in "The Zuni Enigma". 16 illustrations.
