Name: Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China After the Wreck of the Kite (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia)
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Author: John Lee Scott; Scott John Lee
ISBN: 9781108013802

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Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China After the Wreck of the Kite (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

John Lee Scott; Scott John Lee

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

156

Format

Paperback

ISBN

1108013805

ISBN13

9781108013802

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Synopsis "Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China After the Wreck of the Kite (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) "

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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