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32T. Adkins joined the China Consular Service in 1854 and was the first Vice-Consul in Zhenjiang, being posted there in May of 1861, preceded by an assistant, Phillips, in February who had been sent to the ruined city to set up the Consulate in a ruined temple. Within a week of Adkins' arrival, he had moved the Consulate a mile down river to safer accommodation away from the Taiping fighting. He remained there, on an island, living a monotonous life alone as Phillips had been transferred elsewhere. He left Zhenjiang in poor health in February 1865 after serving there for three and a half years to return to the UK.
33 This was the Cantonese title by which the bandits were known. In Mandarin it would be Shiwu Zi† £ 'The Fifteen Sons'.
* Parker E.H. John Chinaman and a few others: John Murray: London: 1902
35 Robert Anderson Mowatt, former consular official: acting Chief Justice and Acting Consul-General Shanghai, April - October 1891.
* The Elder Brother Society (Gē Lǎo Huì): a secret society sworn to overthrow the Imperial government, the foreign Manchu Qing dynasty and replace it with a Chinese emperor.
Mesny's son would have been about six at the time of this story, whilst his only other child, his daughter, had not yet been born.
**Mason, C. W. (1924) Chinese Confessions. London: Grant Richards Ltd
"Fairbank, Bruner and Matheson, ed (1975). The I.G. in Peking: Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
* Transit Passes are discussed in a separate chapter below.
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According to Mason in his Confession, Croskey had told him that Croskey's father was an English baronet in business in Vancouver and his mother a Spanish Creole of San Diego in California.
42 Parker, E.H. (1903) China Past and Present: Chapman and Hall Ltd: London
"Cook, Christopher (1982) The Lion and the Dragon - British Voices from the China Coast: London: Elm Tree Books.
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32T. Adkins joined the China Consular Service in 1854 and was the first Vice- Consul in Zhenjiang, being posted there in May of 1861, preceded by an assistant, Phillips, in the February who had been sent to the ruined city to set up the Consu- late in a ruined temple. Within a week of Adkins arrival he had moved the Con- sulate a mile down river to safer accommodation away from the Taiping fighting. He remained there, on an island, living a monotonous life alone as Phillips had been transferred elsewhere. He left Zhenjiang in poor health in February 1865 after serving there for three and a half years to return to the UK.
33 This was the Cantonese title by which the bandits were known. In Mandarin it
would be Shiwu Zi† £ 'The Fifteen Sons'.
* Parker E.H. John Chinaman and a few others: John Murray: London: 1902
35 Robert Anderson Mowatt, former consular official: acting Chief Justice and
Acting Consul-General Shanghai, April - October 1891.
* The Elder Brother Society (Getao Hui] : a secret society swom to overthrow the Imperial government, the foreign Manchu Qing dynasty and replace it with a Chinese emperor.
Mesny's son would have been about six at the time of this story, whilst his only other child, his daughter, had not yet to be born.
**Mason. C. W. (1924) Chinese Confessions. London : Grant Richards Ltd
"Fairbank, Bruner and Matheson, ed (1975). The L.G. in Peking: Cambridge.
Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
*Transit Passes are discussed in a separate chapter below.
4
According to Mason in his Confession Croskey had told him that Croskey's father was an English baronet in business in Vancouver and his mother a Spanish Creole of San Diego in California.
42 Parker, E.H. [1903] China Past and Present: Chapman and Hall Ltd : London
"Cook, Christopher (1982) The Lion and the Dragon - British Voices from the
China Coast: London: Elm Tree Books.
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