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

• 3rd China War 1898-1901
• 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
• 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.

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".
  • Who took the photographs? by Robert Bickers August 19, 2013

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
• 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 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. Unfortunately this collection is no longer publicly available. For the collections publicly available, see Digital Initiatives
• The China Martyrs of 1900. 
A Complete Roll of the Christian Heroes Martyred in China in 1900, with Narratives of Survivors 
compiled and edited by Robert Coventry Forsyth 1904 Archive.org
• Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7, June Archive.org
• Record of Services Given and Honours Attained by Members of the Chinese Customs Service, War 1914-1918 Published 1922, Shanghai. Archive.org