China: Difference between revisions

From FIBIwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Maureene (talk | contribs)
Maureene (talk | contribs)
Line 20: Line 20:
==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/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".
*Great War Forum thread  [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=96396 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==
==Historical books on-line==

Revision as of 05:56, 1 October 2013

China

Major locations

History

  • The Opium Wars:

Records

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".
  • 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
  • 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