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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China CHina] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China] Wikipedia
*[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/customs/ancestors/ China Coast Family History] Website of University of Bristol - project for "locating details about foreign residents in the Chinese treaty ports (excluding Hong Kong). As well as pointing to the location of various public records (probate details, marriage, birth and death registers) it contains a number of cemetery lists and other lists culled from public records and printed sources".
*[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/customs/ Chinese Maritime Customs project] University of Bristol. Includes
*University of Bristol’s [http://visualisingchina.net/blog/about/ Visualising China Blogis "a web-based resource that allows users to explore more than 9,000 digitised images of historical photographs of China taken between 1870 and 1950".  
**[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/customs/ancestors/ China Coast Family History]. Hints for "locating details about foreign residents in the Chinese treaty ports (excluding Hong Kong). As well as pointing to the location of various public records (probate details, marriage, birth and death registers) it contains a number of cemetery lists and other lists culled from public records and printed sources". Includes a searchable Burial List.
**[http://visualisingchina.net/blog/2013/08/19/who-took-the-photographs/ Who took the photographs?]  by Robert Bickers August 19, 2013
*[http://visualisingchina.net Visualising China 1850-1950]. Associated with the University of Bristol. Access to more than 8000 digitised images of photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950.  
**Also contains  a Blog category.
***[http://visualisingchina.net/blog/2013/08/19/who-took-the-photographs/ Who took the photographs?]  by Robert Bickers August 19, 2013
*[http://robertbickers.net History, empire, China, and things found on the way]. Professor Robert Bickers’s website


==Historical books online==
==Historical books online==
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**Section 3 Japan and China [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA105 pages 105-118]
**Section 3 Japan and China [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA105 pages 105-118]
**Section 4 China [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA209 pages 209 -220]
**Section 4 China [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA209 pages 209 -220]
*''Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1835'' by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926.  Five Volumes. Volumes 3 and 4 are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924052145988?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume 5, Supplementary, 1742-74] Hathi Trust Digital Library.  
*''Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1835'' by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926.  Five Volumes. Volumes 1, 3 and 4 are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. [http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/13763 Volume 1] and [http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/2307 Volume 3] are available as pdf downloads from Osmania University Digital Library (OUDL may only be available during Indian office hours (IST 10 am to 6 pm) (IST = GMT+5:30)), [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924052145988?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume 5, Supplementary, 1742-74] Hathi Trust Digital Library.  
*''Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China: with notices of numerous missionary stations, and a full account of the Burman Empire; with dissertations, tables, etc'' by Howard Malcolm 2nd edition 1839 2 volumes in one.  Book 2  with index follows page 276  of Book 1 [http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ Google Books]. A chapter on China commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA141 page 141 of book 2]
*''Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China: with notices of numerous missionary stations, and a full account of the Burman Empire; with dissertations, tables, etc'' by Howard Malcolm 2nd edition 1839 2 volumes in one.  Book 2  with index follows page 276  of Book 1 [http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ Google Books]. A chapter on China commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA141 page 141 of book 2]
*[https://archive.org/details/residencechinese00fort ''A residence among the Chinese inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856''] by Robert Fortune 1857 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/residencechinese00fort ''A residence among the Chinese inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856''] by Robert Fortune 1857 Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/treatyportsinch01taigoog ''Treaty Ports in China (a Study in Diplomacy)''] by En-Sai Tai 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/treatyportsinch01taigoog ''Treaty Ports in China (a Study in Diplomacy)''] by En-Sai Tai 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924022973196 ''With the Chinks''] by Daryl Klein, 2nd Lieutenant in the Chinese Labour Corps, 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924022973196 ''With the Chinks''] by Daryl Klein, 2nd Lieutenant in the Chinese Labour Corps, 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023255999 ''The Trade and Administration of China''] by Hosea Ballou Morse, sometime Commissioner of Customs 3rd Revised edition 1920 Archice.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023172640#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Record of Services Given and Honours Attained by Members of the Chinese Customs Service, War 1914-1918'']  Published 1922, Shanghai. Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023172640#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Record of Services Given and Honours Attained by Members of the Chinese Customs Service, War 1914-1918'']  Published 1922, Shanghai. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/directoryofprote00shan ''Directory of Protestant Missions in China 1921''] includes [https://archive.org/stream/directoryofprote00shan#page/n291/mode/2up "Alphabetical List of Names"], page 257. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/directoryofprote00shan ''Directory of Protestant Missions in China 1921''] includes [https://archive.org/stream/directoryofprote00shan#page/n291/mode/2up "Alphabetical List of Names"], page 257. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/travelershandboo00crow ''The Travelers' Handbook for China (including Hongkong)''] by Carl Crow Third Edition, Revised 1921 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/314/mode/2up Index]. Includes maps.
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn37wq?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 1913 Edition] Hathi Trust Digital Library
*''Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society''.  ''North'' appears to have been dropped from the title for a period.
*''Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society''.  ''North'' appears to have been dropped from the title for a period.
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=p4ZhofZJl24C&pg=PA125 New Series No I December 1864], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bm-TQj1RnEwC&pg=PP5 New Series No II December 1865], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vpMY4e-BZisC&pg=PP7 New Series No III December 1866] Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=p4ZhofZJl24C&pg=PA125 New Series No I December 1864], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bm-TQj1RnEwC&pg=PP5 New Series No II December 1865], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vpMY4e-BZisC&pg=PP7 New Series No III December 1866] Google Books
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**Multiple Volumes Hathi Trust: [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100223794  A], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008886163  B], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000519144  C]
**Multiple Volumes Hathi Trust: [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100223794  A], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008886163  B], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000519144  C]
*[http://lib.hku.hk/database/ Digital Initiatives] from the  [http://lib.hku.hk/ University of Hong Kong Libraries]. Some databases are restricted to members of the University. For those databases which are freely available, click on Browse to see the titles available.
*[http://lib.hku.hk/database/ Digital Initiatives] from the  [http://lib.hku.hk/ University of Hong Kong Libraries]. Some databases are restricted to members of the University. For those databases which are freely available, click on Browse to see the titles available.
*[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/customs/publicationssonline.html Chinese Maritime Customs publications available online]. Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 01:13, 9 May 2015

China

Major locations

History

  • The Opium Wars:

Records

  • There are some records for China in the "World Miscellaneous" records on FamilySearch (source unspecified)
  • Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the British Library - Macao and Whampoa [Canton] 1820-1833, IOR N/9. These records are now available on the pay site findmypast
  • China: Sources in the India Office Records Guide to records at the British Library
  • British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985 by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the British Library. Includes lists such as “List of Known Recipients of the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894” and “List of Officers who served with the Hong Kong Regiment 1892-1902”. This link lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484)

British Army

The British Army leased for a time Wei-hai-wei (a fine natural harbour) on the mainland and Liu Kung Tao island. There was a garrison of British Troops A naval depot serviced the Royal Navy's China Squadron.[1]

Also see

External links

Historical books online

This publication had many titles over time and with different publishers: The China Register (1862, 1863, 1874). The Chronicle & Directory for China, Japan & the Philippines (1873, 1879). In 1889 included Corea, Cochin-China, Annam, Tonquin, Siam, Borneo, Straits Settlements, Malay States. In 1889 included Indo-China (replacing Cochin-China, Annam, Tonquin). In 1899 included Netherlands India. By 1905 the title had changed to The Directory & Chronicle…
Editions are available to read online on the Hathi Trust Digital Library, or to download as pdfs from archive.org (Currently most/all browsers cannot read the online versions on archive.org)
1862 1863 1873 1874

1874 archive.org

1879

1879 archive.org

1889

1889 archive.org

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1892 archive.org

1894

1894 archive.org

1899

1899 archive.org

1902
1905

1905 archive.org

1908

1908 archive.org

1917

1917 archive.org

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1920 archive.org

1922

References

  1. Great War Forum thread Wei-hai-wei and Liu Kung Tao, then and now by Bushfighter April 2008. (Images only available to logged in members of GWF) (retrieved 14 April 2014)