China

China

Major locations

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

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.
• China: Sources in the India Office Records Guide to records at the British Library

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".

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

• 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

• Online books are available at the website China Through Western Eyes , a digital initiative from the University of Hong Kong Libraries. Covers the period until 1911, although the date of publication may be later. Browse the titles. Includes titles about missionary work.