RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1971 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/z029vt43g THE TAIPINGS AT NINGPO 31 of the entire Taiping Revolution from 1853 to 1864 as it related to foreign powers. At the least, it suggests once again a need for renewed consideration both of the Taiping period in itself and of the historical tradition which transmitted our understanding of it. NOTES 1 Romaine to Hammond, No. 34, Admiralty, February 17, 1862, Inclosure 1, Hope to Admiralty, Shanghai, December 22, 1861, Blue Books, pp. 90-91. 2 Harvey to Hammond, No. 32, Ningpo, December 7, 1861, Inclosure 1, Ibid., p. 85. 3 The letters to both Taiping generals are translated as Inclosures 3 and 4 in Harvey to Hammond, No. 32, Ibid., pp. 86-88. 4 Harvey to Hammond, No. 33, December 18, 1861, Ibid., p. 89. 5 Romaine to Hammond, Admiralty, February 17, 1862, Inclosure 3, Ibid., p. 95. 6 Ibid. 7 Frederick Wells Williams, The Life and Letters of Samuel Wells Williams, LL.D., New York, 1889, p. 336. 8 W. H. Sykes, The Taiping Rebellion in China, London, 1863, p. 34. 9 The China Mail, Hong Kong, May 8, 1862, reprinted from the Shanghae Commercial News, May 2, 1862. 10 Sykes, p. 19. 11 Ibid. 12 Ibid., pp. 49-53. 13 G. E..., "Rebels in the Ningpo District," North China Herald, No. 615, May 10, 1862. 14 Harvey to Hammond, No. 36, January 3, 1862, Inclosure 1, "Correspondence respecting...." Blue Books, p. 107. 15 Romaine to Hammond, No. 34, Inclosure 5, Corbett to Hope, Ningpo, December 20, 1861, Blue Books, p. 97. 16 This seems evident, for example, in the writings of A. E. Moule obtainable at the Church Missionary Society archives in London, and in his undated Personal Reminiscences at the Essex Institute Library. 17 Harvey to Hammond, No. 3, Ningpo, March 20, 1862, Inclosure 4, "Further Papers...." pp. 12-16. 18 In this dispatch, Bruce makes another unwarranted generalization about foreign views of the Taipings: "The experience of several years and the testimony of all foreigners who have been among them, show that they are unable to govern." Bruce to Russell, No. 14, Peking, April 10, 1862, Ibid., pp. 18-20. 19 Bruce to Russell, No. 15, Peking, April 8, 1862, Ibid., p. 21. 20 Admiralty to Hammond, No. 32, July 28, 1862, Inclosure 4, "Further Papers relating to...." Blue Books, p. 44. 21 Inclosure 9 in No. 32, Ibid., p. 48. 22 Inclosure 6 in No. 32, Ibid., p. 45. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1976 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/hq382988q IN SEARCH OF THE CHINESE NAME FOR “LI SUN” 109 locate a photograph of Chan Lai-sun. It is not very surprising that there is none from his College days, as photography was not yet widely adopted in the 1840's. And no photographs were usually taken of honorary degree recipients in the late nineteenth century. As to the reference in the 1872 letter to Professor North, the family photographs are not in the correspondence file. They were evidently separated out when the alumni correspondence files were established. I have searched the miscellaneous North papers, but with no success. There is an old trunk of North memorabilia which I will also search as soon as time permits. . . Chan's letters to Professor North from October 28, 1872 to September 10, 1873 and selections from Hamilton College Literary Monthly, July 1869 to February 1887, made possible a tentative biographical sketch. Also very helpful were Carl T. Smith's two articles in the Chung Chi Bulletin of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chan Laisun (hereafter this name will be used just as he used it in his signature) was born 1829 in Singapore, the son of a poor gardener. Chan attended the Chinese day and boarding schools conducted by the American Board missionaries. His mother tongue was Malay, although his father was from the Ch'aochow prefecture of Kwangtung Province. His parents died leaving him an orphan. The Reverend Joseph S. Travelli of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and his wife served as missionaries of the American Board. Soon after their arrival in Singapore, their attention was attracted by a Chinese boy waiting on the table of the American Consul, and they took him into the school which they established for Chinese children for English and Chinese studies. When the school was disbanded in 1842, Chan was taken to the United States and put into Mr. Randall's School in East Bloomfield, New Jersey until 1846. Then the Reverend Samuel Wells Williams of the American Board arranged for him to receive free instruction at Hamilton College. His college term ended in June 1848, and he returned to China with Reverend Williams as an assistant with the American Board mission in Canton until 1853. He had lost almost all knowledge of the Chinese he had known and had to engage a language tutor to relearn Chinese. In July 1850, he married Ruth Ati (1827-1917), one of two girls Miss ================================================================================