RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1979 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2801w5938 232 but at page 349, read, BOOK REVIEWS "Indeed, the Chinese garrison troops fled their strongholds en masse, before the assault forces reached the shore." "... the Chinese defenses simply folded up...." - and later, page 350, "Once they (Chinese) had recovered their astonishment of seeing ships moving against wind and tide, they ranged along the banks, some performing kowtows as the gunboats passed." And see also numerous instances in Chapter II. But the lapses do not greatly detract from the sound scholarship which this study represents. It is well documented and well articulated; it is written in a most elegant style; and this reader was greatly absorbed in the moving narrative. In more than one place one seems to hear strong echoes of Somerset Maugham relating the piques and barbs and jealousies and smoldering antipathies among colonial officials and merchants in the field. Certainly Napier and Pottinger were not universally loved; and Elgin and Admiral Seymour must have disliked each other intensely. The book must be one of the most readable scholarly works on the period, and it makes excellent use of many specialist studies of some narrower issues and individual episodes, such as Peter W. Fay's The Opium War, 1840-42 (University of North Carolina Press, 1975), and Jack Gerson's excellent Horatio Nelson Lay and Sino-British Relations, 1854-60 (Cambridge, 1972), as well as all the now standard works on the nineteenth century opening of China. University of Hong Kong, May 1980. LEIGH WRIGHT THE IMPACT OF CHINESE SECRET SOCIETIES IN MALAYA--A HISTORICAL STUDY. Wilfred Blythe, pp. XIV, 566, maps, ill, app. Oxford University Press, 1969. As befits the complicated, extensive and important nature of the subject, this is a long book (566 pages). It carries an introduction by the Right Hon. Malcolm Macdonald who, rightly in my ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1998 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/1g05n0794 117 leading their men to an attack. 5 Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 138. 6 Lord Jocelyn. Six Months with the Chinese Expedition. London, 1841, p. 41. 7 Although the benefits of rifling to give more consistent trajectories were known, no one had yet been able to come up with a practical means of taking advantage of it in a cannon. 8 Lieutenant John Ouchterlony, The Chinese War: An Account of all the Operations of the British Forces from the Commencement to the Treaty of Nanking, London 1844, p. 98 notes that at Tycocktow the Gunboat Nemesis "threw shells into the upper fort." D. Bonner-Smith & E.W.R.Lumby. The Second China War 1856-1860. London, 1965, p.53 records that Rear Admiral Seymour reports that "The Barracuta at the same time also shelled the troops in the hills at the back of the city, from a position at the head of Sulphur Creek." 19 D. Bonner-Smith, op. cit., p. 173 records that Commander Forsyth of the Hornet reports "..commenced firing grape and shrapnel, with ricochet shot,into the whole mass of junks, which must have done dreadful execution, as they were crowded with men to excess." Ouchterlony, op. cit., p. 239. 12 Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 23 reports "a Congreve rocket, which was fired at the Admiral's junk, went through the deck into the magazine, upon which she immediately blew up." 13 Loch, op. cit., p. 40. 14 Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 149 notes "In artillery they are very backward, their guns being of enormous weight in proportion to their calibre; some of the pieces of ordinance which we captured weighing seven ton, although only 42 pdrs; yet notwithstanding the immense thickness of metal in many cases the guns burst." 15 Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 157 notes "in the great arsenal at Amoy, a large two-decked junk was found nearly ready for sea with guns, as well as something bearing a resemblance to gun-carriages." ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1998 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/1g05n0794 118 16 Mackenzie, op. cit., includes an Appendix giving details of all the guns captured in the period 1 January to 1 June 1841. 17 Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 150. 18 Ouchterlony, op. cit., p. 113. 19 Loch, op. cit., p. 52 notes "In fact, the carriage was precisely like a large garden barrow, with a locker before for shot, and a drawer between the handles containing loose powder and a small shovel to load with." 20 Giuliano Bertuccioli ed., La Cina Nelle Lastre Di Leone Nani (1904-1914), Pontificio Istituto Missioni Estere 1994, p. 67. 21 David Woodward, Armies of the World 1854-1914, London 1978, p. 157. 22 Loch, op. cit., p. 113. 23 Jocelyn, op. cit., p. 64. 24 Jocelyn, op. cit., p. 152. 25 D. Bonner-Smith, op. cit., p. 27 notes that in January 1858 "Mr. H. Thompson, Midshipman of the Sans Pereil, a most praiseworthy and zealous young officer, was mortally wounded by a spear-rocket." 26 D. Bonner-Smith, op. cit., p. 339 a report by Rear Admiral Sir M. Seymour to Secretary of the Admiralty dated May 21, 1858. 27 Ouchterlony, op. cit., p. 153. 28 Ouchterlony, op. cit., p. 156. 29 Ouchterlony, op. cit., p. 37 describes that the force comprised "a compact and serviceable body of troops, mustering about 3600 bayonets." 30 Jocelyn, op. cit., p. 114. 31 Ouchterlony, op. cit., p. 274 et seq. 32 Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 22 notes "The tortures which most of the Chinese endured, ================================================================================