China

China

Major locations

• Canton
• Hong Kong
• Macao
• Peking (Beijing)

History

• The Opium Wars:

• 1st China War 1839-42
• 2nd China War 1856-60

• Taiping Rebellion 1850-64

Records

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

External links

Historical books online

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

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 Google Books. A chapter on China commences page 141 of book 2