China: Trade, Politics & Culture
Primary source collection from Adam Matthew Digital on China and the West, 1793-1980, with documents relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs service, the Amherst and Macartney embassies, letters relating to the first Opium War, survivors’ descriptions of the Boxer War, collected diaries and personal photographs of the Bowra family. Also includes sources related to the missionaries in China from 1869-1970 and periodicals such as The Chinese Recorder, Light and Life Magazine, and The Land of Sinim: the North China Mission Quarterly Paper.