Microform Collection

Title: China through Western eyes manuscript records of traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats, 1792-1942
Call Number: MICROFILM 5846
Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications, 1996.
Description: <47> Microfilm ; 35 mm. +

Subject(s):

William R. Perkins Library--Catalogs.
Public opinion--Europe--History--Sources.
Public opinion--United States--History--Sources.
China--Foreign public opinion--History--Sources.

Language: English
Time period: 1792-1942
Country: China
Publication type: Correspondence, diaries, papers

Notes: This project offers the diaries, journals, letters, photographs, and scrapbooks of a host of American and British businessmen, tourists, missionaries, journalists and diplomats from the first British mission in China, 1792-94, to the onset of World War II some 150 years later. There are first hand records of events such as the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and the Foochow Rebellion of 1911. There is a History of Mission work in China and many manuscript accounts of individual missions, There are accounts of Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and other Eastern religions. There is much on trade, from the observations of members of the Macartney (1792-1794), Amherst (1816-1817) and Elgin (1844-1864) as well as the records of individuals doing business in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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