China illustrated : western views of the middle kingdom / Arthur Hacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hacker, Arthur.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History.

China.

China--Foreign public opinion--Pictorial works.

China--History--Pictorial works.

China--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Boston, Mass.] : Tuttle, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This beautifully illustrated social history highlights various aspects of traditional China as seen through the eyes of foreign visitors and residents from the time of the first trading contacts with China in the mid-sixteenth century to the beginning of World War II. The lives and lifestyles of the fascinating mix of people who came to China, as well as the places they visited and the sights ans customs that attracted their attention, are set against the backdrop of China's great cities and it's ancient culture.

Contents:

Contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST (1557-1860); Foreign Devils from the West; Matteo Ricci and the First Jesuits in China; The John Company and Others; The Swedish East India Company; The Embassies That Failed; An Artist on the Grand Canal; The Interlopers and Taipans; Laboriously Vile; An American at Canton; Commissioner Lin and Captain Elliot; Two Irishmen; The Pirates of the South China Sea; Harry Parkes and the Arrow War; Old Maps of China; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Prints of China

Chapter 2: THE EMPIRE OF OPPORTUNITY AND THE TREATY PORTS(1860-1894)The Beginning of the Missionary Invasion; The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864); The Ever-Victorious Army; Sir Robert Hart of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs; Ching Peking; The First Treaty Ports; The Great China Tea Race; Transport in the Middle Kingdom; Footbinding: Ching Dynasty Fashion Victims; Through China with a Camera (1868-1872); A Country of Clubs; Chapter 3: THE END OF EMPIREAND THE NEW REPUBLIC ( 1894-1918); Weihaiwei: The Scramble for Concessions; Mortimer Menpes: Whistler's Disciple

Tzu Hsi: The Dragon EmpressThe Boxer Rebellion: The Siege of the Legations; The Odd Couple: Sir Edmund Backhouse and Dr G. E. Morrison; Port Arthur: The Russian Concession in Manchuria; Life before Television in Expatriate China; A Touch of Satire in Ching China; The Double Tenth 1911 and the Fall of the House of Ching; A Camel in the Chinese Customs Service; The Maker of Heavenly Trousers; Chapter 4: TURBULENCE AND DECADENCE (1919-1927); The Grandeur of the Three Gorges; Sir Reginald Johnston: Tutor to the Last Emperor; One-Arm Sutton: The Man Who Captured the Great Wall of China

Shanghai: The Days of No TomorrowCigarette Advertising in the Great Tobacco War; Picture Postcards of China; Sun Vat-sen's Bodyguard: General Two-Gun Cohen; The Shanghai Volunteers; The Incident on the Blue Express and Other Kidnappings; The White Russians; The Northern Expeditionand Chiang Kai-shek's Coup; Chapter 5: NATIONALISTIC CHINA AT PEACE AND WAR (1928-1941); The Pursuit of Wealth; Carl Crow and His 400 Million Customers; The Westernized Chinese; The Gentle Art of Making Fun; The Great Espionage Epidemic; Photographers of the 1920s and 1930s; The Japanese Attack on Shanghai (1932)

The Lull and the StormThe Media Circus; The Rape of Nanking (December 1937); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 284) and index.

ISBN:

1-4629-0690-7

OCLC:

798536201