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The Alcock Album: Scenes of China Consular Life 1843-1853

內容簡介

內容簡介 Following the ending of the First Opium War and the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842, Britain opened five treaty ports on the Chinese mainland in the cities now known as Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Xiamen. Foreigners were allowed for the first time to live and work normally in these cities under the eyes of their state’s consul. In establishing this presence, consular staff and their families faced numerous challenges, including unsuitable accommodation, illness, hostile local authorities, attacks from militias and pirates, while at the same time adjusting to an unfamiliar language and culture.Henrietta Alcock (1812–1853), the first wife of the British Consul, Rutherford Alcock, was little-known until an album of sketches and watercolours depicting her life in China came to light. Acquired by the Martyn Gregory Gallery, London in the early 1990s, the works in the Alcock Album feature picturesque natural landscapes, traditional Chinese architecture, and scenes of consular life. Drawing on more than one hundred images, this richly illustrated volume brings her out of the shadows, providing a unique picture of the treaty port world in its very earliest days and of Henrietta as an amateur artist, the wife of a consul and, most importantly, a woman in empire.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Dr Andrew Hillier is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Mediating Empire: An English Family in China 1817–1927 (Renaissance Books, 2020) and editor of My Dearest Martha: The Life and Letters of Eliza Hillier (City University of Hong Kong Press, 2021). He has published articles in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History and Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong. He is an active contributor to the Historical Photographs of China Project (www.hpcbristol.net ), launched by the University of Bristol in 2006, which locates, digitises, and archives historical photographs of China.

產品目錄

產品目錄 Introduction To China with a SketchbookChapter 1 LondonChapter 2 Hong Kong and XiamenChapter 3 FuzhouChapter 4 ShanghaiChapter 5 To the Hills: 1848–1850Chapter 6 1851: A Year through LettersChapter 7 The Final PhaseChapter 8 AftermathConclusion

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 1842年第一次鴉片戰爭結束和《南京條約》簽訂后，外國人首次被允許在這些城市正常生活和工作，在他們的國家領事的監督下。在建立這種存在時，領事工作人員及其家屬面臨著許多挑戰，包括不合適的住所、疾病、敵對的地方當局、民兵和海盜的襲擊，同時又要適應不熟悉的語言和文化。

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