China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980
Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London
Discover over 200 years of Chinese history, charting the monumental social and political upheaval that recreated China as a modern power.
With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period.
Key documents relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs service – from Robert Hart to Frederick Maze – are accessible and searchable alongside original reports of the Amherst and Macartney embassies. There are letters relating to the first Opium War, survivors’ descriptions of the Boxer War and tantalising glimpses of life in China from the collected diaries and personal photographs of the Bowra family. Significant sources describing the lives and work of missionaries in China from 1869-1970, including extensive and fully searchable runs of missionary periodicals are also featured.
Highlights
- The Republican and Nationalist governments of Sun Yatsen and Jiang Jieshi
- The Sino-French and territorial struggles with Germany, Britain, America and Japan
- Rolls-Royce's negotiations regarding the delivery of jet engines to China, 1973-1975
- The 1816 Amherst Embassy
- The Opium Wars
- The Taiping Rebellion
- The 1792-1794 Marcartney Embassy
- The Boxer War
- The 1911 Revolution
- The Sino-Japanese War
- The Communist Revolution led by Mao
- The 1972 Nixon visit to China
- The Douglas-Home and Heath visits to China, 1973-74.
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Period covered
Source archives
- British Library, London
- Cambridge University Library
- Council for World Missions Library
- The National Archives, UK
- The School of Oriental and African Studies, London
- Yale Divinity Library
- Mcartney Embassy, 1792-1794
- Amherst Embassy, 1816
- Settling of Penang
- Opium Wars
- Opening of Hong Kong
- Taiping Rebellion
- Missions in China, 1869-1970
- Japanese seizure of Taiwan
- Opening of Korea
- Territorial struggles with Germany, Britain, America and Japan
- The Boxer War
- Russo-Japanese War
- The 1911 Revolution
- Governments of Sun Yat sen and Jiange Jieshi
- The 'Warlord Period'
- Sino-Japanese war
- The Rape of Nanjing
- The Communist Revolution led by Mao Zedong
- The Korean War
- The Great Leap Forward
- President Nixon's 1972 visit to China
- Rolls-Royce negotiations regarding the delivery of jet engines to China, 1973-1975
- The Douglas-Home and Heath visits to China, 1973-74
- Correspondence
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Official papers
- Periodicals
- Personal accounts
- Manuscripts
- Photographs
- Printed books
- Robert Bickers, Bristol University
- Richard Horowitz, California State University, Northridge
- Wong Man Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Business and Economics
- Communities, Peoples and Nations
- Cultural Studies
- East Asian Studies
- International Relations
- English-language sources relating to China and the West
- Extensive runs of ‘The Chinese Recorder’, ‘Light and Life Magazine’ and ‘The Land of Sinim: the North China Mission Quarterly Paper’
- 400 colour paintings, maps and drawings
- Map gallery
- Image slideshow
- Biographies (courtesy of Dr Catherine Ladds, University of Bristol)
- Contextual essays
