1st Edition

Britain and the China Trade, 1635-1842

Edited By Patrick Tuck
2504 Pages
by Routledge

This set looks at trade relations with China from 1635-1842. The classic work on the period is generally considered to be Hosea Ballou Morse's Chronicles of the East India Company Trading with China, 1635-1834 . In this, Morse attempted to cover the whole of the East India Company's monopolisation of Britain's trade with China from 1634 onwards. However, his coverage of the subject was uneven,... Read more

Volumes 1-5. The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading with China, 1635-1834 H.B. Morse

Volume 6. The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese Relations, 1750-1800 E.H. Pritchard

Volume 7. Instructions of the East India Company to Lord Macartney on his Embassy to China and his reports to the Company, 1792-2 E.H. Pritchard from the Journal of the Asiatic Society 1938, and Lord Macartney's Embassy to China from the Original Chinese Documents J.L. Cranmer-Byng from the Journal of Oriental Studies 1957-8

Volume 8. An Embassy to China J.L. Cranmer-Byng from Lord Macartney's Journal 1793-4

Volume 9. British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-1842 Michael Greenberg, reprinted with the supplemental article Opium Smoking in China J. Spence from Conflict and Control in Late Imperial China (c.1970) from Wakeman and Grant

Volume 10. Notes of Proceedings and Occurences during the British Embassy to Peking in 1816 by Sir George Staunton

Biography

Patrick Tuck

'With this ten volume set on British-Chinese economic and political history between 1635 and 1842 the editor presents a luxurious reprint of the basic primary sources as well as the literature which is mainly founded on primary sources, to an academic readership' -- Michael Mann