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The Taking of Hong Kong: Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoe, Susanna, Author.
- Series:
- Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History
- Echoes : classics of Hong Kong culture and history The taking of Hong Kong
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elliot, Charles, 1801-1875.
- Elliot, Charles.
- Elliot, Clara, 1806-1885.
- Elliot, Clara.
- China--History--Opium War, 1840-1842.
- China.
- Hong Kong (China)--History--19th century.
- Hong Kong (China).
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--China.
- Great Britain.
- China--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Hong Kong (China)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Hong Kong University Press 2010
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong on 26 January 1841. The man responsible - Britain's Plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot - was recalled by his government in disgrace a.
- Contents:
- Cover
- The Taking of Hong Kong - Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- MAPS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- AUTHORS' NOTE
- PROLOGUE
- 1. WHENEVER THERE IS A BREEZE (1801-34)
- 2. BY WARSHIP TO CHINA (1834)
- The Journey
- To Canton
- 3. INTO THE TIGER'S MOUTH (1834)
- Macao
- Forcing the Bogue
- 4. CLIMBING THE LADDER (1834-6)
- 5. THE OPIUM TRADE (1836-7)
- To Lintin
- The Opium Question
- Back to Macao
- 6. SOME GROSS INSULT (1838-9)
- Commissioner Lin's Arrival
- The Sailing of the Melbourne
- Elliot to the Rescue
- Commissioner Lin - Scholar and Activist
- 7. ELLIOT'S 'TROUBLESOME FRIEND' (1839)
- The End of Some Opium
- The End of Trade
- 8. ALL ENGINEERED BY ELLIOT (1839)
- To Hong Kong Harbour
- To the Opium War
- Commissioner Lin and Superintendent Elliot
- 9. CHARLES ELLIOT ALONE (1839-40)
- The Waiting Game
- The Expeditionary Force Dispatched
- Clara Elliot to Singapore
- The Elliots and the Windsors
- 10. LOOKING WESTWARDS (1840)
- The Cousins
- Words at Westminster
- 11. TWO SUCH IMBECILES (1840)
- North With the Admiral
- Clara in Calcutta
- 12. THE ROAD TO GLOARY (1841)
- The Taking of Hong Kong
- Cession or Cessation
- How the News was Received
- 13. WHIMSICAL AS A SHUTTLECOCK (1841)
- Towards Canton
- April Letters
- 14. WHIPPING OFF THE FOX-HOUNDS (1841)
- To Take Canton?
- Ceasefire, Again
- 15. WRECKED ASHORE (1841)
- The Wreck of the Louisa
- 16. THE WEB OF CALUMNY (1841-43)
- Homeward Bound
- Home Again
- 17. ELLIOT, WHERE IS HE? (1843)
- Exiled to Texas
- Elliot's Successor in China
- Finances
- 18. EXILED TO ST HELENA (1843-75)
- 19. EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- GENEALOGIES
- BIOGRAPHIES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Published Works
- Unpublished Docurnents.
- CHRONOLOGY OF FAMILY LETTERS FROM CHARLES AND CLARA ELLIOT
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: Hoe, Susanna Richmond, Surrey : Curzon Press, 1999
- ISBN:
- 1-282-70938-0
- 9786612709388
- 988-8052-79-9
- OCLC:
- 1024237125
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