55
70 Gutzlaff, China Opened, op. cit., Vol.II, p.259.
"1 For a good description of Deshima, with a drawing, and the restrictions placed on the Dutch merchants who lived there in the late 17th century, see Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice M (1999). Kaempfer's Japan, Tokugawa Culture Observed University of Hawaii Press, Chapter 6.
Mason, George Henry (1804). The Costume of the Chinese, London, William Miller, preface.
* Milne, William C. (1859). Life in China, London: Routledge, Warnes & Routledge, New Edition, p. 1.
*T.T.T (1842). Life in China, The Porcelain Tower or Nine Stories of China. Philadelphia
"This topic is well-known, and a source of fun, but its patent inadequacies had serious consequences. Commenting on it in the 1840s, a competent observer wrote, "The whole trade is conducted in this meagre gibberish, which the natives suppose, however, to be as copious and correct English as foreigners themselves speak... Much of the misunderstanding and trouble experienced in daily intercourse with the Chinese is doubtless owing to this imperfect medium .... These petty annoyances have also had more serious results in strengthening the national dislikes, and still further separating those who originally intended, perhaps, only to endure each other as long as they could make gain thereby". Williams, S. Wells (1848). The Middle Kingdom, Boston, 2 vols., Vol. II, pp. 411-2. See also note 55 above.
J
Concerning the Chinese statecraft reformer Wei Yuan, Jane Kate Leonard (1984) comments, 'Never for a moment did he conceive of the West as a new and unique center of culture and civilization in any sense comparable with China,' in Wei Yuan and China's Rediscovery of the Maritime World. Harvard University Press, pp.3-4.
" Gutzlaff, Charles, Journal of Three Voyages, op.cit., p.44.
TH
Medhurst, W.H.(1838). China, Its State and Prospects, With Special Reference to the Spread of the Gospel. Boston, Crocker and Brewster, p.374.
79 Parkinson, op.cit., p.57.
55
70 Gutzlaff, China Opened, op. cit., Vol.II, p.259.
"1 For a good description of Deshima, with a drawing, and the restrictions placed on the Dutch merchants who lived there in the late 17th century, see Bodart- Bailey, Beatrice M (1999). Kaempfer's Japan, Tokugawa Culture Observed University of Hawaii Press, Chapter 6.
"Mason, George Henry (1804). The Costume of the Chinese, London, William
Miller, preface.
* Milne, William C. (1859). Life in China, London: Routledge, Warnes &
Routledge, New Edition, p. 1.
*T.T.T (1842). Life in China, The Porcelain Tower or Nine Stories of China.
Philadelphia
"This topic is well-known, and a source of fun, but its patent inadequacies had serious consequences. Commenting on it in the 1840s, a competent observer wrote, "The whole trade is conducted in this meagre gibberish, which the natives suppose, however, to be as copious and correct English as foreigners themselves speak... Much of the misunderstanding and trouble experienced in daily intercourse with the Chinese is doubtless owing to this imperfect medium .... These petty annoyances have also had more serious results in strengthening the national dislikes, and still further separating those who originally intended, perhaps, only to endure each other as long as they could make gain thereby". Williams, S. Wells (1848). The Middle Kingdom, Boston, 2 vols., Vol. II, pp. 411-2. See also note 55 above.
J
Concerning the Chinese statecraft reformer Wei Yuan, Jane Kate Leonard (1984) comments, 'Never for a moment did he conceive of the West as a new and unique center of culture and civilization in any sense comparable with China,' in Wei Yuan and China's Rediscovery of the Maritime World. Harvard University Press, pp.3-4.
" Gutzlaff, Charles, Journal of Three Voyages, op.cit., p.44.
TH
Medhurst, W.H.(1838). China, Its State and Prospects, With Special Reference
to the Spread of the Gospel. Boston, Crocker and Brewster, p.374.
79 Parkinson, op.cit., p.57.
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