Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: "The 'dragon rampant' is Japan, the rampaged is China, the time 1938, the writer Robin Hyde, New Zealand journalist, novelist, and poet, 'a stranger in China'."--back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "The 'dragon rampant' is Japan, the rampaged is China, the time 1938, the writer Robin Hyde, New Zealand journalist, novelist, and poet, 'a stranger in China'."--back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: "The era of Republican China began with the fall of the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty in 1912, and came to an end in 1949, when Mao Tse-tung declared the People's Republic of China.The 37 years in between were marked by power struggles between competing warlords, anti-foreign riots, floods and widespread famine, an eight-year conflict with Japan, and the depredations of an ongoing civil war. For the Chinese people, and for foreigners living in China, these were indeed interesting times.Some New Zealanders were drawn to China by missionary zeal or humanitarian concern, others by commercial opportunities, still others by political curiosity or simply by their appetite for risk. In this book, famous figures like Rewi Alley, James Bertram and Iris Wilkinson (Robin Hyde) rub shoulders with long-term China hands like the YWCA secretary Agnes Moncrieff and the missionary Alice Cook. Based on a series of interviews carried out in 1985-86"--Back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "The era of Republican China began with the fall of the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty in 1912, and came to an end in 1949, when Mao Tse-tung declared the People's Republic of…

Description: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806) was dispatched to Beijing in 1792 travelling via Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope and Indonesia. He was accompanied by Staunton, and a retinue of suitably impressive size, including Staunton's 11-year-old son who was nominally the ambassador's page. On the embassy's arrival in China it emerged that the 11-year-old was the only European member of the embassy able to speak Mandarin, and thus the only one able to converse with the Emperor. The embassy, the first such to China, had two objectives: the first to register with the Emperor British displeasure at the treatment that the British merchants were receiving from the Chinese, the second to gain permission for a British minister to be resident in China. The first objective was achieved, the second was not. Macartney was twice granted an audience with the Emperor and in December 1793 he was sumptuously entertained by the Chinese viceroy in Canton, and returned to England via Macao and St. Helena, arriving in September 1794.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806) was dispatched to Beijing in 1792 travelling via Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope and Indonesia. He…

Description: "The letters contained in this volume were written some years ago, and were not originally intended for publication. They describe at first hand a fascinating part of the world, which is visited by few people, and under conditions which have passed or are rapidly passing away."--Preface.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "The letters contained in this volume were written some years ago, and were not originally intended for publication. They describe at first hand a fascinating part of the…

Description: [Diary entries of the author's travels through Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle-East.]

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: [Diary entries of the author's travels through Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle-East.]

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: This is the official report on the British Macartney Embassy to China that took place between 1792-1794. It was written down after the return to England by the Secretary to the mission Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737-1801), based on his own observations and notes from other crewmembers, including his twelve-year-old son Sir George Thomas Staunton, 2nd Baronet. The official publisher to King George III, W.Bulmer & CO for George Nicol published the account in 1797.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: This is the official report on the British Macartney Embassy to China that took place between 1792-1794. It was written down after the return to England by the Secretary to…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: Between 1790 and 1807, Delano, an American mariner and author from Massachusetts, made several voyages to various parts of the Pacific including Hawaii, Palau, the Galapagos Islands, Australia, and Canton. His travelogue describes the various cultures he encountered and also provides a unique account of the Bounty and Captain Bligh, including an early map of Pitcairn Island. Herman Melville's short story, "Benito Cereno" is taken from Delano's adventure seizing a Spanish ship that had been taken over by the slaves it was transporting. Ferguson 673; Forbes 463; Hill 463; Howes D-233; Sabin 19349.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Between 1790 and 1807, Delano, an American mariner and author from Massachusetts, made several voyages to various parts of the Pacific including Hawaii, Palau, the Galapagos…

Description: "Tinted plate, as Fildes points out, is taken from Mundy 'Our Antipodes', an earlier Bentley publication. Auckland and Maori impressions during a month-long visit in December 1855 / January 1856, with quotations from printed sources: p. 212-233"--Bagnall 1593

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Tinted plate, as Fildes points out, is taken from Mundy 'Our Antipodes', an earlier Bentley publication. Auckland and Maori impressions during a month-long visit in December…

Description: Pictorial record of R. Glynn Vivian’s travels through the USA, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand, 4 Oct 1869-23 Jan 1871. The album contains 126 watercolour drawings and 48 pencil sketches made by Vivian as well as photographs he collected on his travels. Photographs include those taken by John Thomson, Francis Chit and William Pryor Floyd.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Pictorial record of R. Glynn Vivian’s travels through the USA, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand, 4 Oct…