A Scot in China of Today
This will be an ongoing series of stories that will hopefully give
you a view of China from a Scottish perspective but also we hope
from a local perspective as well. This series is written by Ron Dow.
James Legge, Missionary and Scholar
Dr Legge's thirty-three years of missionary service in Malacca and
Hong Kong ended in 1870. Other work as Professor of Chinese in the
University of Oxford, was taken up by him in 1877, and continued
until his death in 1897.
Autobiography of a Chinese Girl
A genuine autobiography by Hsieh Ping-Ying and Translated into English with an Introduction by Tsui Chi with a Preface by Gordon Bottomley (1944) (pdf)
Two Years in China
Narrative if the Chinese expedition from its formation in April,
1840, to the treaty of peace in August, 1842 and containing the most
important of the general orders & despatches published during the
above period by D. Macpherson, M.D., Madras Army, attached to the
service of his Highness the Nizan, and lately with the 37th
Grenadier Regiment in China, second edition, (1843) (pdf)
The Case
for Manchoukuo
By George Bronson Rea, Counsellor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Government of Manchoukuo (1935)
Across Chryse
Being the narrative of a journey of exploration through the South
China Border Lands from Canton to Mandalay by Archibald R.
Colquhoun, Executive Engineer, Indian Public Works in two volumes
(third edition) (1883)
The Chinese Empire
A General & Missionary Survey Edited by Marshall Broomhall, B.A.,
Editorial Secretary, China Inland Mission With Preface by The Right
Hon. Sir Ernest Satow, G.C.M.G., H.M. Minister at Peking 1900-1906
(1907) (pdf)
China and its Resources
And peculiarities, physical, political, social and commercial with a
view of the opium question and a notice of Assam by Robert Mudie
(1840) (pdf)
Pioneering in Formosa
Recollections of adventures among the Mandarins, Wreckers,
Head-Hunting Savages by W. A. Pickering, C.M.G., with an appendix on
British policy and interests in China and the Far East (1898) (pdf)
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