The account of merchant sailor John Lee Scott about his shipwreck and imprisonment in China during the First Opium War.

Published in 1892, this fascinating book recounts a journey through China taken by two clergymen in the winter of 1890.

Published in 1894,Mrs Little's account of her stay at a farmhouse is an invaluable source for nineteenth-century Chinese life.

A London-born Wesleyan Methodist missionary, William Arthur Cornaby (1860 1921) spent over thirty years in China, where he edited The Chinese Christian Review, and, from 1905, the Ta Tung Pao, a weekly magazine targeted at Chinese officials and scholars. His many books on Chinese culture and civilisation, including A String of Chinese Peach-Stones (1895) and Rambles in Central China (1896), provide detailed sketches of Chinese rural life and customs. The later China Under the Search-Light, first published in 1901, uses Western cliches about China as a point of departure to offer a more...

Published in 1899, Little's book provides a vivid account of life in China at the end of the nineteenth century.

This is an account of the career of James Dinwiddie (1746 1815). First published in 1868 by Dinwiddie's grandson William Jardine Proudfoot, the work is based on Dinwiddie's own autobiographical notes, travel logbook and personal correspondence. The biography traces Dinwiddie's career from the scientific lectures he gave from 1781 and the journal series Queries and Hints, which he began in 1779, to his visit to the Chinese imperial court as official astronomer in Lord Macartney's mission (1792 1794); his residence in Beijing and Canton; and his move to India, where he was appointed Professor...

William Arthur Cornaby (1860 1921) was born in London and educated at the School of Mines before training as a Methodist minister. In 1885 Cornaby was sent as a missionary to Wuhan, central China, and A String of Chinese Peach-Stones (1895) was inspired by his experiences. Cornaby explains that his title suggests that the reader possesses 'a collection of desiccated tales, legends, and the like, picked up here and there along the highways and byways of China'. Cornaby's work covers the period 1849 1867, and discusses the major episodes of the Taiping Rebellion (1850 1864) as well as providing...

Margary's record of his final, groundbreaking trip within south-central China offers an insight into contemporary travel in that country.

A comprehensive history of the indigenous people of Sudan based on interviews and local genealogies, first published in 1922.

A comprehensive history of the indigenous people of Sudan based on interviews and local genealogies, first published in 1922.