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:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7063  Volume 1], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7065  Volume 2], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7066  Volume 3], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7067  Volume 4], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7134 Volume 5: Supplementary, 1742-74]. Volume 3 is also available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7063  Volume 1], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7065  Volume 2], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7066  Volume 3], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7067  Volume 4], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/7134 Volume 5: Supplementary, 1742-74]. Volume 3 is also available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website
*''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
*Restricted access online books are available  at the website [http://xml.lib.hku.hk/gsdl/db/ctwe/search.shtml China Through Western Eyes] , a [http://lib.hku.hk/database/ digital initiative] from the  [http://lib.hku.hk/ University of Hong Kong Libraries]. Covers the period until 1911, although the date of publication may be later.  [http://xml.lib.hku.hk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?c=ctwe&a=d&cl=CL1  Browse the titles]. Includes titles about missionary work. Unfortunately this collection is no longer publicly available. For the collections publicly available,  see [http://www.lib.hku.hk/database/  Digital Initiatives]
*Restricted access online books are available  at the website [http://xml.lib.hku.hk/gsdl/db/ctwe/search.shtml China Through Western Eyes] , a [http://lib.hku.hk/database/ digital initiative] from the  [http://lib.hku.hk/ University of Hong Kong Libraries]. Covers the period until 1911, although the date of publication may be later.  [http://xml.lib.hku.hk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?c=ctwe&a=d&cl=CL1  Browse the titles]. Includes titles about missionary work. Unfortunately this collection is no longer publicly available. For the collections publicly available,  see [http://www.lib.hku.hk/database/  Digital Initiatives]
*[http://archive.org/stream/whoswhoinfareast00hongrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7, June''] Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/whoswhoinfareast00hongrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7, June''] Archive.org

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China

Major locations

History

  • The Opium Wars:

Records

  • Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the British Library - Macao and Whampoa [Canton] 1820-1833, IOR N/9.
  • 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)

External links

  • CHina Wikipedia
  • 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".
  • University of Bristol’s Visualising China Blog is "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".
  • Great War Forum thread Wei-hai-wei and Liu Kung Tao, then and now. Britain leased this area 1898-1930.There was a naval depot and a garrison of British troops.

Historical books on-line

  • Article in the Asiatic Journal, Volume 13, January-June 1822. "A Succinct Historical Narrative of the East India Company’s Endeavours to Form Settlements and to Extend and Encourage Trade in the East and of the Causes by which those Endeavours have been Frustrated":
    • Section 1 Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Eastern Islands, etc . pages 1-11
    • Section 2 The continental kingdoms of Siam, Cochin-China [Southern Vietnam], Tonquin [Northern Vietnam], Pegu [Burma], and Ava [Burma]. pages 11-20,
    • Section 3 Japan and China pages 105-118
    • Section 4 China pages 209 -220
  • Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1835 by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926 Digital Books from GIPE, Pune. Pdfs to download.
Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5: Supplementary, 1742-74. Volume 3 is also available to read online on the Digital Library of India website