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A Critical Guide to the Kwangtung Provincial Archives Deposited at the Public Record Office of London. By David Pong. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1975. Pp. xii, 203. $9.00, £3.60.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

J. Y. Wong
J. Y. Wong
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University of Sydney
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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 1979 , pp. 343 - 347
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References

1 See Wong, J. Y., Yeh Ming-ch'en: Viceroy of Liang Kuang, 1852–8 (Cambridge, 1976), pp. 37–41, and my forthcoming article in the Supplement of the 1977 issues of Ch'ing-chih wen-t'i, entitled, ‘Lin Tse-hsu and Yeh Ming-ch'en: A comparison of their roles in the two Opium Wars’.Google Scholar

2 For a discussion of the merits and faults of the various titles in current use as well as the incident itself, see Wong, J. Y., ‘The Arrow Incident: A Reappraisal’, Modern Asian Studies, 9, 3 (1975), 303–20.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Compare Change Hsin-pao, , Commissioner Lin and the Opium War (Cambridge, Mass., 1964) with J. Y. Wong, Yeh Ming-ch'en,Google Scholar and Wong, J. Y., “The Cession of Hong Kong: A chapter of imperial history”, Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 11, 1–2 (1976), 49–61.Google Scholar

4 See n. 1.

5 See J. Y.Wong, Yeh Ming-ch'en, p. 180–2.

6 Ibid., p. 181, quoting F.O.17.267 Desp. 178, Bowring–Clarendon, 11 April 1857.

7 Cf. Ibid., pp. 37–80 and 121–55.

8 Veritable Records (Ta-Ch'ing li-ch'ao shih-lu), Tao-kuang period, 476.16a.

9 Ibid., Hsien-feng, 356.22b.

10 F.O.682.113.31 Pottinger to Ch'i-ying, 6 September 1842.

11 Veritable Records, Tao-kuang period, 476. 1a-b.

12 J. Y.Wong, Yeh Ming-ch'en, pp. 81–119.

13 Cf. Ibid., pp. 169–191.

14 Cf. Ibid., pp. 81–119 and 169–191.