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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    October 2010
    June 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511709142
    9781108013802
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709142
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.21kg, 156 Pages
    • Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Criminology, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, Sociology
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Criminology, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, Sociology
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite (1841) is an autobiographical account, written by the merchant sailor John Lee Scott, of his 'shipwreck and subsequent imprisonment in the Celestial Empire' in 1840, during the First Anglo-Chinese or so-called 'Opium' War. In eight chapters, Scott describes leaving South Shields in the Kite, 'a beautiful brig of 281 tons' for Singapore in order to 'carry stores to the British fleet destined for China'. Scott recounts how the Kite was capsized on its way to deliver supplies to the British fleet based around Chusan, and how he and other crew members, after being washed up on the island of Ningpo, were captured by the Chinese and held prisoner for five months. Scott's Narrative provides an interesting insight into British perceptions of the Chinese during the Anglo-Chinese conflicts of the nineteenth century.

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