Chapter 34 "An Eastern Entrepot"

"An Eastern Entrepot" Although today's Hong Kong is known as the "Pearl of the Orient" and even the "Showcase of Democracy", but Since the nineteenth century, her economic lifeline has been dependent on mainland China, so her status Always a commercial entrepot.This is where the title of this book comes from. This book also has a subtitle: "A Collection of Documents Explaining the History of Hong Kong", edited by Ander division.He was a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and has written several books on the history of Hong Kong.This book is sponsored by London

Published by the Royal Clerk. (An Easter Nentkepot, A Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Hong Kong by GB Endacott.) The main content of this book is a collection of old documents about Hong Kong.Since 1816, As of 1898, a total of fifty-one documents have been selected and recorded.The age of the last article is that of the British The Qing government signed the treaty of "expanding the boundaries of Hong Kong" and "lease the New Territories" for one year.As for the first article In 1816, when the "Hong Kong Colony" was of course not yet born, but at that time the East India Commonwealth

The company has set up a branch in Guangzhou, and the United Kingdom has sent Sir Amherst as a special envoy to come east to test the Qing Dynasty. North Korea opened the door to trade, and has made a determination to meddle in the Chinese market, so from then on it has belonged to the "Hong Kong" The embryonic stage of the Hong Kong Colony is over. These fifty-one documents are not necessarily all of the British themselves, but also given to British firms by the Qing government. The translation of official documents, as well as the official Qing Dynasty regulations on the management of "barbarian merchants" collected by British merchants

example translation.The sources of these documents are all official archives, and the number is of course very large, The selection purpose of the editors is to select a part related to Hong Kong's economic development and British trade in the early years. Since the material is too rich, although this goal of the editors does not seem to be of interest to ordinary people, other The factual content is still very rich and full of historical interest, because these are first-hand source materials.sometimes A sentence written by the person concerned by accident at that time, so that we can read it a hundred years later, can often help to understand

Solved a long-standing question. The fifty-one documents collected are divided into eight parts.The first part is about what I suffered in Guangzhou Suffering and the Making of Hong Kong; Part Two on Hong Kong and Other Treaty Ports; Part Three on Ravens the film trade; the fourth part is about the early disappointment of the Hong Kong trade; the fifth part is about the entrepot trade Development; Part VI, Money and Finance; Part VII, Administrative Organization and Opinions of Merchants; Part VIII The point is to expand the boundary address. The editor has a long preface at the beginning of the volume, explaining that Hong Kong, as a trade entrepot in the Far East,

The history of how it became an important commercial entrepot in the Far East after its own commercial development lost its future.exist Before each part, the editor has another brief explanation. This book is not typesetting, but photocopied from typewritten originals.I don't understand why this is so.There are some Obvious mistakes have not been corrected, such as the last page of the preface, the fiftieth part of the document "Ceding the Kowloon Peninsula" The signing date of the article should be 1860, but two places in the book are mistaken for "1960" year.