RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1996
https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/3n209j641
14 February 

28 February 

7 March, 

Rethinking the Market Town Through Festivals in Contemporary China, ' Helen Siu Fung-har 

The Confucian Examination Hall at Jia Ding,' by Dr Betty Wei Peh-T'i 

"The Hong Kong Diary, 1849-1857, of John Francis Evelyn Wright, 'by Mr Christopher Munn. 

In addition the following three lectures were jointly organised by the Royal Asiatic Society and the Museum of Art in conjunction with the latter's exhibition on 'Views of the Pearl River Delta-Macau, Canton and Hong Kong." 

23 November 

24 November 

'Two Hundred Years of Collecting Chinese Export Art at the Peabody Essex Museum,' by William Sargent. 

The Thirteen Factories in Guangzhou,' by Dr Joseph Ting. 

+ 

27 November Change and Continuity in Macau, 'by Reverend Carl Smith. 

In addition to lectures the Branch has organised a number of other functions, such as visits, both in Hong Kong and outside the Territory. These were as follows: 

1996 

Place 

20 April 

Walking Tour of Historic Sites in Central District. 

11 May 

Boat Trip to View Dolphins off Lantau. 

8 June 

13 July 

Historical Sites in Kowloon 

Guided Tour of Exhibition. 'Teatime in Flanders,' Museum of Teaware. 

xiv 

Page 15

Page 16
================================================================================
RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2003
https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2v242g390
50

more detail, the returns for the Company and 'Country' trade at Appendix I in Greenberg, Michael (1951), British Trade and the Opening of China. Cambridge University Press.

s Cited in Views of the Pearl River Delta, Macau, Canton and Hong Kong (1996). Urban Council, Hong Kong joint exhibition organized by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Peabody Essex Museum, USA, p.108.

9

Ball, B.L., M.D., Rambles in Eastern Asia Including China and Manilla During Several Years' Residence, Boston, 1855, pp.97-8,

10 Davis, John Francis (1845). Sketches of China Partly During an Inland Journey of Four Months, Between Peking, Nanking and Canton. [made with Lord Amherst's Embassy in 1816]. London, as a Supplement to the 1845 edition of The Chinese, p.262.

11 Cited in Views, op.cit., p.109.

12 Parkinson, op.cit., pp.257-8.

13 Gutzlaff, Rev. Charles (1838). China Opened, or A Display of the Topography, History, Customs, Manners, Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, Literature, Religion, Jurisprudence, Etc., of the Chinese Empire. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 2 vols. At Vol. I, p.138.

14 For an evocative recent account of Canton, see Garrett, Valery M. (2002). Heaven is High, the Emperor Far Away, Merchants and Mandarins in Old Canton, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press.

15 For a description, see Davis, The Chinese, vol. II, pp.114-116.

16 Herbert A. Giles (1900). A Glossary of Reference of Subjects Connected with the Far East. Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, Third Edition, p.87. A plan of the Factories, as drawn in 1856, is given in Morse, Hosea Ballou (1910), The International Relations of the Chinese Empire, The Period of Conflict 1834-1860. Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, opposite p.70.

17 Ball, Rambles in Eastern Asia, op.cit., p.100. The earlier remark is by Commodore Mathew Perry, USN, when en route to his Mission to Japan, but other than having recorded "Perry, p.136" I cannot at present trace my source.
================================================================================