Rare Books on China & East Asia

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The Library has been digitising its rare books located in the Special Collections with the purpose to promote resource sharing via online access of its full-text. To give users a glimpse of the Chinese and East Asian cultures and histories in western eyes between 18th and early 20th century, this collection contains the rare books on China and East Asia which were mainly published in western countries between 1704 and 1922. Users can also browse different topics by its subcollection including Chinese Literature, Missionary, Religions in China, Social Life and Customs in China, Statistics of China Commerce, Travel in China, etc.

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Indiscreet letters from Peking : being the notes of an eye-witness, which set forth in some detail, from day to day, the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in 1900--the year of great tribulation
Title:
Indiscreet letters from Peking : being the notes of an eye-witness, which set forth in some detail, from day to day, the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in 1900--the year of great tribulation
Creator:
Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox), 1877-1930
Date:
[1906?]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Memoirs of Li Hung Chang
Title:
Memoirs of Li Hung Chang
Creator:
Li, Hongzhang, 1823-1901
Date:
1913
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Li Hung-Chang
Title:
Li Hung-Chang
Alternative Title:
李鴻章傳 : 西人眼中的李鴻章
Creator:
Bland, J. O. P. (John Otway Percy), 1863-1945
Date:
1917
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
China's only hope : an appeal
Title:
China's only hope : an appeal
Alternative Title:
勸學篇
Alternative Title:
Quan xue pian
Creator:
Zhang, Zhidong, 1837-1909
Creator:
張之洞
Date:
1900
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Personal narrative of occurrences during Lord Elgin's second embassy to China in 1860
Title:
Personal narrative of occurrences during Lord Elgin's second embassy to China in 1860
Alternative Title:
Earl of Elgin's second embassy to China
Alternative Title:
Personal narrative of events in China in 1860
Alternative Title:
Narrative of events in China
Creator:
Loch, Henry Brougham, 1827-1900
Date:
1900
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
History of the insurrection in China : with notices of the Christianity, creed, and proclamations of the insurgents
Title:
History of the insurrection in China : with notices of the Christianity, creed, and proclamations of the insurgents
Alternative Title:
Insurrection en Chine
Creator:
Callery, J. -M. (Joseph-Marie), 1810-1862
Date:
1853
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
Six months with the Chinese expedition; or, Leave from a soldier's note-book
Title:
Six months with the Chinese expedition; or, Leave from a soldier's note-book
Alternative Title:
Leave from a soldier's note-book
Creator:
Jocelyn, Robert Jocelyn, Viscount, 1687 or 1688-1756
Date:
[1840]
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
A digest of the despatches on China (including those received on the 27th of March), with a connecting narrative and comments
Title:
A digest of the despatches on China (including those received on the 27th of March), with a connecting narrative and comments
Creator:
Elliot, Charles, 1801-1875
Date:
1840
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
History of China
An introduction to Mandarin
Title:
An introduction to Mandarin
Creator:
Whitewright, J. S. (John Sutherland), 1858?-1926
Date:
1918
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Language
A guide to Wenli styles and Chinese ideals : essays, edicts, proclamations, memorials, letters, documents, inscriptions, commercial papers
Title:
A guide to Wenli styles and Chinese ideals : essays, edicts, proclamations, memorials, letters, documents, inscriptions, commercial papers
Creator:
Morgan, Evan, 1860-
Date:
1912
Collection:
Rare Books on China & East Asia
Subcollection:
Chinese Language