tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10501260983808565612024-03-05T15:14:23.856-08:00Old China Photos and TextsHistorical photos and books on ChinaAmoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-70282031343660776032019-08-10T09:07:00.000-07:002019-08-10T09:07:08.881-07:00Samuel Lewis Shaw in Amoy and Foochow (Xiamen and Fuzhou)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I just received a fascinating email from Chris S. about his great grandfather in Amoy and Foochow, also talking about the French attack on Mawei and its Luoxing Pagoda (famous as the Star Pagoda). I have a full color French postcard that France put out to celebrate their murder of over 3,000 in their attack on Fuzhou to "teach China a lesson." The sheer barbarity of colonial powers in Asia only a century ago is astonishing; I keep hoping we'll learn from it. Thanks, Chris! Bill<br />
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Dear Dr. Brown<br />
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I enjoyed your website on Fujian. I thought you might find it interesting that my paternal grandmother and her 7 siblings were born on Pagoda Anchorage in the big home next to the Luoxing Pagoda. My great grandfather was a retired sea captain who decided to put on his land legs and settle down in Foochow as it was then called in the mid 1870's after a life of sailing the Pacific and Indian Oceans. He became the harbor master and at that time of course most of the big ships anchored there.<br />
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His name was Samuel Lewis Shaw, he was widowed and in about 70 years old. After being there a couple years a Japanese business associate came to visit and told him a man of his stature should not be alone so he brought his sister back from Japan and they married and had the 8 children including my grandmother.<br />
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My grandmother's older sister remembered the Battle of Foochow and recounted it in a radio interview before she died in Macao at the age of 103. She said her father had told the Chinese servants to lower the British flag that hung from their home on the Anchorage as the French fleet was approaching and would not enjoy seeing the Union Jack. But it did not get lowered and the French fired canon balls at their home, several whizzing through their large windows of the sitting room narrowly missing anyone in the room. The flag was immediately lowered and the shots aimed at them stopped.<br />
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My great grandfather died in 1908 and was buried in Foochow. Sadly, during the Korean war the Chinese revolutionaries who were much like the later day Red Guard dug up the cemetery and tossed all the bones and grave markers into the river [same thing happened with the centuries-old foreign cemetery in Amoy--but the Red Guards were as thorough in desecrating their own Chinese heritage as that of the foreigners; Bill B].<br />
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My father said he remembered visiting his Japanese grandmother one last time before he and my grandparents departed for England in 1929. My grandfather knew the war was coming and wanted to leave. My father said he was only 9 but he remembered running up to the top of the pagoda which had no railing and only a narrow pathway.<br />
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Well anyway, I did enjoy the website. I hope to go visit there someday, I have only been to Shanghai once a few years ago. My father went to Foochow in about 1988 and to Pagoda Anchorage said the big old home was still there but had been made into a school or something like that.<br />
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Chris Sxxxxxx<br />
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Enjoy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy!</b></a><br />
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-16441851038248463312017-07-19T21:07:00.002-07:002017-07-19T21:07:49.959-07:00Still Searching for Pastor Iap--China's First Chinese Pastor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On Oct. 31 (Halloween!), 2016, I posted info about Emily, a descendant of <a href="http://oldchinaphotos.blogspot.com/2016/10/pastor-iap-han-chiong-chinas-first.html" target="_blank"><b>Pastor Iap</b></a> (Yap) seeking more info on this man, who was China's first Chinese Protestant Pastor. Today, another descendant, who met Emily's Aunt Dee years ago. I post his email below (with his name and email address redacted). If you have more info on <a href="http://oldchinaphotos.blogspot.com/2016/10/pastor-iap-han-chiong-chinas-first.html" target="_blank"><b>Professor Iap</b></a>, please provide it!<br />
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Enjoy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy!</b></a><br />
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Dr. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Bill </b></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><b>School of Management, Xiamen University<br />Amazon eBook </b></span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">"Discover Xiamen"</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><img height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh-sFgtHKRIwVlAjnBL8JBGaHzkdgk3nSWyfJwN3Svcq9J135SNhNVVo5sY10i5QJ8NFyvKHP6t8f1djbN5i8YNzNI4FJc9wCnN4WfTZf3Egsw8ESlu9qhjR8fQHuU9Anhcr94ps4KtaHDzMWsMMDZE-Wr6ELjFCoW5Y_u3yOeSa47rix87NNm1qQ7NQ3AL9ejgYDxjTpDaZCuFwAyR0ra6Sh0sbXzj1kkjX_s3yOHkwL5dY7nsa5TRyC_qw0nQfGSDGL7N2Ak=s0-d-e1-ft&id=0B9IadTaNkq8NQWJ1S1ZKOGEtYmc&revid=0B9IadTaNkq8NQlVRaldwVm1lMjVBVkx1aERmM3BpOEpPbHJNPQ" width="200" /></span></div>
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-13887292826192451652017-03-04T05:07:00.001-08:002017-03-04T05:10:46.872-08:00Quanzhou, Zayton, Cayton--Why English Research on China is tricky<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One reason it is so hard to research Chinese cities in Western historical texts is that foreigners had so many ways to spell cities' names! Consider Marco Polo's and Ibn Battuta's legendary port of <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Quanzhoupage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Quanzhou</b></a>, the world's greatest port in the Middle Ages, which the Arabs called Zayton (and which was probably the inspiration for the story of <a href="http://offthewallchina.blogspot.com/2017/03/aladdin-was-chinese-probably-from.html" target="_blank"><b>Aladdin, who was Chinese</b></a>) had probably two dozen spellings.<br />
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Even <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a>--historic Xiamen--was spelled many ways, including Emowi, Emoui, Emeng, etc. My favorite was from a 160-year-old map that spelled it Emony. (way ahead of their time: eMoney).<br />
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<b>Here are variations of foreigners' spellings of <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Quanzhoupage.htm" target="_blank">Quanzhou</a>, Enjoy!</b><br />
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زيتون<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> (</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Arabic)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Zayton, Zaytiin, Zaytun, Zaytûn, Zaytún, Zaiton, Zaitun, Zaitûn,
Zaitún, Zaitūn, Zeiton, Zeitūn Zeitûn, </span>, <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Caiton, Çaiton, Çayton, Chinchew, Chincheo, Chincheo fu,
Chincheo fou, Ch‘üan-chou, Chuan-chiu, Choan-Chiu, Chwanchow-foo, Chwan-chau
fu, Chwanchew, Chwanchew foo, Chwanchew fu, Chwanchew fou, Tswanchau, Tswanchau fou, Tswanchau foo, Tswanchau fu, T'swanchau,
T'swan-chau fu, T'swan-chau foo, T'swan-chau fou, Ts'üan-chou, Ts'üan-chou foo,
Ts'üan-chou fou, Ts'üan-chou fu, Tswanchow, Tswanchow-foo, Tswanchow-fu, Ts’wan-chow,
Ts’wanchow-foo, Ts'wan-chow-fu, Ts'wan-chiu, Ts'wan-chiu foo, Ts'wan-chiu fu, Ts'wan-chiu
fou, Thsiouan-tchéou, Thsiouan-tchéou fou, Thsiouan-tchéou foo, Thsiouan-tchéou fu, Thsíouan-chéou, Thsíouan-chéou
fu, Thsíouan-chéou foo, Thsíouan-chéou-fou, Shanju </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">等等!</span><br />
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Enjoy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy!</b></a><br />
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Dr. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Bill </b></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><b>School of Management, Xiamen University<br />Amazon eBook </b></span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">"Discover Xiamen"</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><img height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh-sFgtHKRIwVlAjnBL8JBGaHzkdgk3nSWyfJwN3Svcq9J135SNhNVVo5sY10i5QJ8NFyvKHP6t8f1djbN5i8YNzNI4FJc9wCnN4WfTZf3Egsw8ESlu9qhjR8fQHuU9Anhcr94ps4KtaHDzMWsMMDZE-Wr6ELjFCoW5Y_u3yOeSa47rix87NNm1qQ7NQ3AL9ejgYDxjTpDaZCuFwAyR0ra6Sh0sbXzj1kkjX_s3yOHkwL5dY7nsa5TRyC_qw0nQfGSDGL7N2Ak=s0-d-e1-ft&id=0B9IadTaNkq8NQWJ1S1ZKOGEtYmc&revid=0B9IadTaNkq8NQlVRaldwVm1lMjVBVkx1aERmM3BpOEpPbHJNPQ" width="200" /></span></div>
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-46733256255124626992017-02-24T11:09:00.001-08:002017-02-24T21:41:33.362-08:00In Search of Yeh Wen-lan (Yap)叶文澜: Amoy Electric, Foochow Arsenal, Amoy Foodstuffs, etc.)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahoy from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a>! (historic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Xiamen</a>, China).<br />
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I just received a fascinating email asking for sources on Yeh Wen-lan [叶文澜, or 叶清渠]. He died in Taiwan in 1887 or 1888). If you have any documents, photos, etc. about the him or Yap family (also spelled Ye, Yap, Iap), please share them! He said Yeh made a fortune in the 1849 California gold rush, returned to make another fortune in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Amoy's </a>tea and baking, at the request of General Zuo Zongtang 左宗棠 supplied arms and food supplies to fight against the Taiping rebels. General Zuo was so impressed he recommended Yeh as Chief Supervisor of Asia's largest shipyard (Foochow Arsenal, in Mawei, east of Fuzhou, 2,200 years ago was the site of China's first maritime shipbuilding). When Yeh went to work for the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Fujiantravel.htm" target="_blank"><b>Fujian</b></a> government, his family became the HSBC's comprador until the 1950s (HSBC knew him as Ye Deshui 叶德水).<br />
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The Yeh family founded Amoy Electric Lights, Amoy Water Supply, etc. Amazing! Mr, Ye's younger brother, Ye Qingrui [叶清瑞], moved to Kaohsiung, Taiwan [高雄台湾】 in 1887, prospered in business, and his family was very influential until 1945.<br />
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Mr. Yeh's had many celebrated descendants in both Xiamen andTaiwan, including Li Yongjin 李永进 who started Taiwan's Daewoo Information Company 大宇资讯公司, among many others.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGyFnxwDbzcSKO6dyvRC6FsxoQQCSQxPQziyILZcl-PWA9C4JPdFnxnvFE_cK0njvFUFvmgXKXXDWKbqp_0Ai2MBgvakXV59NXec7IjcovqUg-8Fo_5DY0AXSwVcNxnfFE6vRFw74t/s1600/Amoy+Sauce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="淘化 厦门 鼓浪屿 Amoy Sauce Xiamen Gulangyu" border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGyFnxwDbzcSKO6dyvRC6FsxoQQCSQxPQziyILZcl-PWA9C4JPdFnxnvFE_cK0njvFUFvmgXKXXDWKbqp_0Ai2MBgvakXV59NXec7IjcovqUg-8Fo_5DY0AXSwVcNxnfFE6vRFw74t/s320/Amoy+Sauce.jpg" title="淘化 厦门 鼓浪屿 Amoy Sauce Xiamen Gulangyu" width="320" /></a>The man who emailed me is now searching for more info about the Yap family. He's already written a book "The Legendary Yap Family in Amoy" but is trying to search out more information and asks for sources.<br />
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He also said the Yap [in the 19th century, spelled Iap) family started Amoy Foodstuffs, which began as Tao Fa 淘化大同 on <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu</b></a> Islet in 1908 and made soymilk and soy sauce),That was a surprise to me. I understood it was started by Mr, Huang Tingyuan (黄廷元), whose former home is now a <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu </b></a>hotel near the piano museum (#23-25 Xin Lu 鼓浪屿鼓新路23-25号. But many of these families were related, often through marriage. Today, Amoy Foodstuffs is based in Hong Kong (Tai Po, New Territories) and makes the famous Amoy Soy Sauce and others.<br />
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The question that he (and so many others) have is where to find more information. Too often people ask this and don't even know the Chinese name of their ancestor (which makes it almost impossible to research, as many have Anglicized names that have no relation to the original Chinese name). Even without the Chinese name, it is sometimes possible. I had one family from the Philippines send me a 1940s family photo, which Xiamen Daily published--and members of the family in Xiamen recognized the photo! That was quite a family reunion when they returned from Amoy to meet relatives none had seen in over 70 years.<br />
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Generally, it is difficult to find old records in Xiamen because many were destroyed by the Japanese invasion and occupation in 1938, and those that survived were consigned to bonfires on <b><a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank">Gulangyu</a></b> during the Cultural Revolution. Now that <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu</b></a> is applying for UNESCO World Heritage Site status (should get it in 2017), they deeply regret it. Almost all of my materials have come from abroad--books, old photos, maps, journals, diaries, magazines, etc. bought from dealers in dozens of countries, or else given to me by the descendants of Chinese and foreigners who lived in Amoy from the 1840s to 1940s (some gave them to me; some allowed me to scan the materials).<br />
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Many people searching their roots have visited me in Xiamen and I've shown them around Xiamen and <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Quanzhoupage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Quanzhou</b></a> just to the north, which was the ancient start of the Maritime Silk Road / Route. Most overseas Chinese from South Fujian are from South <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Quanzhoupage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Quanzhou's</b></a> Jinjiang. 1000 years ago, <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Quanzhoupage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Quanzhou </b></a>was called Zayton by the Arabs. Marco Polo, when sailing from there, said that for every 1 ship in Christendom carrying peppers (spices), Zayton had 100 ships. We get our English word "satin" from Zayton, and even Sinbad the sailor was said to have visited Zayton, which famed Arab explorer Ibn Battuta said was the greatest port in the world and produced the world's best porcelain (their Dehua produced the famous White Porcelain-- blanc 'de Chine). <br />
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One family was descendants of Pastor Yap (Iap), the first Chinese pastor of Amoy (so the first in China, since Xiamen had China's first church). And one of the most memorable foreigners was Mary Thompson from England--daughter of the last British Consul of Amoy. I helped many of these family find information primarily through Amoy mission archives (Holland, Michigan and New Jersey) and archives at universities such as Stanford, Yale, etc.<br />
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The family of Yeh Wen-lan is in luck because they know so many particulars about him and can visit Mawei's Fuzhou Arsenal, contact the Amoy foodstuffs company, or visit <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu Islet </b></a>and talk with historians who are helping with the UNESCO World Heritage project (they'd be delighted, I'm sure, as this would also provide them more material as well for the museums we're hoping to set up).<br />
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As far as immigration records--those are hard to find as most were destroyed (and the U.S. lost most of its records when the first Amoy Consulate burned down in November, 1904).<br />
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As to his question (below) about coolies--Amoy, in 1947, had first shipment of coolies. In that first year, 8,000 coolies were shipped to Cuba alone to work the sugar fields. In 1849, 75 were sent to labor in Peru's guano pits, and in 1850, several thousand were sent to the railroad work in Panama. Many even paid for their passage, thinking they'd be laborers, not knowing they'd be stripped, have their destination painted on their back, and be packed tighter than African slaves, 1/3 or more dying enroute. No wonder the profitable opium and coolie trade (opium into China, coolies out) was called "Pigs and Poison Trade." While many Westerns sighed sadly over such atrocities, nothing was done until 400 Chinese who paid to work in San Franciso learned they were being shipped on the Robert Bowne' as slaves to Peru's deadly Chincha islands, where few survived one year working the guano pits. Sickness broke out on the packed ship, ten sick coolies were thrown overboard and the rest scrubbed down like pigs. They mutinied, killing the officers. Then the Westerners united to find them and bring these "terrorists" to "justice." <br />
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Ahhh... no wonder in school they never taught us anything about the U.S.' and Europe's history in China during the 19th century and first half of the 20th.<br />
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Back to the point at hand: if anyone has any information about Yeh Wen-lan--texts, photos, etc.--please feel free to share it. <i><b>And please read the letter of explanation below....</b></i><br />
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Dr. Bill<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><b>School of Management, Xiamen University</b></span></span><br />
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Dear Dr. Bill,<br />
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I am writing to you to seek help in my research on a famous family in the late 19th century and early 20th century in Amoy.<br />
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My wife was born in Gulansu in late 1960s. My father-in-law’s great grand father was Yeh Wen-lan, who was said to have gone to San Francisco during the 1849 Gold Rush, made a fortune, coming home and started his own business in tea and banking. He even owned boat fleet travelling to south east Asia, Taiwan etc.<br />
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At the request of General Zuo Zong-tang, he managed to buy arms and prepare food supplies for the government troops to fight the rebels in the 1860s taking advantage of his connections with foreigners. General Zuo was so impressed that Yeh Wen-lan was sent as Chief Supervisor to build the largest shipyard in Asia at the time – Foochow Arsenal where he worked for 10 years. He was a successful business man and later became a high ranking government official. His position was slightly below the provincial governor.<br />
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While he worked for the government in Fuzhou, his family business was run by his sons. The Yeh family was HSBC’s comprador until 1950s. The Yeh family were also founders of many of Amoy’s early and modern utilities companies, such as Amoy Electric Lights, Water Supply and Amoy Foodstuff etc.<br />
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However, many documents, photographs were destroyed during the cultural revolution. After Yeh Wen-lan’s grand parents died, few people knew about their family’s glory past. My father-in-law did not even know the name of his great grand father, not to mention the stories.<br />
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I spent two years digging into the family history and completed a book called The Legendary Yap Family in Amoy.<br />
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I believe I will find more information from the west in sources like:<br />
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US/Britain consul reports in Amoy and Foochow<br />
Missionary reports/accounts in Amoy and Foochow<br />
Britain and US library archives/books<br />
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I attempted to locate Yeh Wen-lan’s immigration records around the 1850s but failed<br />
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I worked in Xiamen from 2013 to 2015 but I didn’t know you until I came across your website recently, otherwise I’d definitely go visit you for advice.<br />
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I was wondering if you could let me know how I could further my study by leveraging online British or American resources. I am also interested in the history societies and organizations/historians who specialize in 19th century Chinese American Coolly trade, Chinese laborers During Gold etc.<br />
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Thank you very much in advance.<br />
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[Name redacted]<br />
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<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/XMU.htm">Xiamen University</a><br />
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-20387580025695120252017-02-22T20:56:00.000-08:002017-02-22T20:56:10.494-08:00Betty of the Consulate (1860s Amoy, daughter of Amoy Consul Trowbridge)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/XMU.htm">Xiamen University</a>
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-69436287688246599862016-12-05T20:09:00.003-08:002016-12-05T20:16:39.103-08:00Bamboo Church founder's descendent's letter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ahoy from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a>! (Historic<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b> Xiamen</b></a>, China).<br />
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I've just received a couple of interesting letters from a man who is a descendant of people who were very influential in the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Amoymission.htm" target="_blank"><b>Amoy Mission </b></a>and also pioneering education not only in Amoy but also in the Philippines (they founded Xiamen's Bamboo Church, built the first road connecting <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen </b></a>to Fuzhou City, founded the Ta Teng Drugstore in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a> and the Amoy Foods, which moved to Hong Kong, helped Sun Yat-sen overthrow the Qing Dynasty, etc. I attach his letter (with his full name removed; if you'd like to contact him, send me your contact info and I'll forward it).<br />
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Enjoy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy!</b></a><br />
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Dr. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Bill </b></a><br />
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Thanks
for intro opportunities around <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a>... My CV was sent under a separate email
following the 1st. Indeed E. W. Tan my sister has been to Xiamen
regularly and we still have many direct relatives in Xiamen. Glad to know
your strong affiliation with Xiamen our mother home town. Our
affiliation/legacy runs over 100 years with Xiamen as my grandfather Dr.
Chen Tien En was a famous surgeon in Xiamen the Tatung Drugstore was
one time owned by our family he was Dr. Sun Yet Sun's classmate he was
the head for Fukkien Province together with Dr. Sun Yet Sun in
overthrowing the last Manchus Dynasty and Dr. Sun Yet Sun established
the Republic of China.</div>
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He
had great contribution to the infrastructure of Xiamen and the old 1st
road connecting Xiamen and <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Fuzhou1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Fuzhou City </b></a>was build by my grandfather and
donated to the gov't he died in 1949 of old age. As founder of the
"bamboo church", which
now has 7000 church members and planning on building a larger sanctuary
sitting 4000.00. The lady pastor Chen Man Li visited our family in
Manila we also run a large mission high school (K-12) plus now a Grace
Christian College my brother Dr. James Lee Tan is college president.
Mother Mrs. Julia Lee Tan and Dr. & Mrs. Edwin & Spahr Baptist
missionaries from Philadelphia, Penna USA founded in 1950.</div>
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Dr.
Chen Tien Un would go weekends to rural Fukien heal the sick/establish
over 200 churches throughout Fukien Province but only the Bamboo Church
was revived in 1985. When I visited The Bamboo Church there were 150
members and I was asked to preach and play my piano accordion <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1865572573" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Sunday</span></span>
servies. I was also invited to play my piano accordion solo numbers at
the Trinity Church, Kulangsu, Xiamen then during my academic lecture
tour of China. My grandfather also founded the Amoy Canning Corporation
(moved to Hongkong) and the 2nd largest paper mill of China in Futzou
City which I visited with his large picture in lobby.</div>
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If
you open the website Grace Christian College, Quezon City, Grace
Villlage, Philippines you might see the photos of the founders with
mother Mrs. Julia Lee Tan and Dr & Mrs. Edwin/Helen Spahr.I have
written Intl Markering books used in my MBA courses and am particularly
good in CASE ANALYSIS in MBA classes in "Organizational Behavior" and
"Intl Marketing Strategies". You mentioned arriving In Xiamen Univ 1988
whereas, I was invited for the one month Intl Marketing Strategies
series of lectures by Xiamen Univ College of Economics, Dept of Intl
Trade.</div>
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The president daughter was then head of the Marketing Dept of Xiamen University... </div>
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My
name, Prof. J. L. T. was also placed in China website as once
consultant to Xiamen City Major when Huli Industrial Zone just opened
for foreign investments.</div>
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Thank
you will plan on visiting Xiamen by end January, 2017 and hope to meet
you at Xiamen University.</div>
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Best regards,</div>
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-72955401141631918072016-10-31T19:26:00.000-07:002016-10-31T19:33:07.531-07:00Pastor Iap Han Chiong -- China's First Pastor (Amoy) 葉漢章牧師<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I received an interesting letter today from a 5th generation descendant of Pastor Iap Han Chiong, the first Chinese pastor in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> (and given that the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Amoymission1.htm" target="_blank"><b></b></a><b><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">Amoy</a> Mission</b> had China's first Protestant church, that pretty much makes Pastor Iap China's first Chinese pastor.<br />
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Iap is of course mentioned a lot in my old books and letters, and later I will post more about him. For now, here is Emily's letter. If you have more information about Pastor Iap or others in old<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b> Amoy,</b></a> please share it (I just scanned 184 photos from the photo album of Andrew Bonthius, who was a doctor at <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_HopeHospital.htm" target="_blank"><b>Hope Hospital</b></a> on Amoy's <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu Islet </b></a>from 1909 to 1915 and who built the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_HopeHospital.htm" target="_blank"><b>Hope Hospital </b></a>chapel as a memorial to his mother; very exciting to see all those old photos--a big thanks to Andrew Bonthius' grandson--also named Andrew Bonthius). <br />
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<b>Oct. 31, 2016 Email from Emily Cheng, 5th Generation Descendant of Pastor Iap Han Chiong 葉漢章牧師. </b>[again, if you have more info, please share it!]<br />
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Dear Mr. Bill,<br />
Since I read your blog, I have some information for your interest. Perhaps you maybe able to add to your historical accounts.<br />
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We are the fifth generation of pastor Iap Han Chiong - who was the first
pastor of the bamboo church. You can check with the bamboo church.<br />
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We still have relatives with photos of that generations who were the
first midwives of gulangyi ( kolongsu island). My aunty ( now 96
residing in Vancouver canada was a student of the famous girls school
founded by Dr.Talmage. Aunty Peggy Hwang has a hard copy of 40 years in southern China - an autobiography of DR. Talmage.<br />
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Dr. Talmage, Dutch reform pastor was the person who lead Rev yap Han
Chiong whole family to Christ, as a matter of fact, I was told- my
family- has become a gateway of missionaries staying over- in their
mission trip- the house was 24 Chong Hua road in kulangyi.<br />
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Midwives - YAP ko new ( 葉姑娘) in the photos are when they, were in their
teens - 葉亮彩and 葉友益( she's called the first midwives of kulangyi ) and
has delivered most babies in those times.<br />
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Here are the links of 300 over pages of the history of the set up of the
girls school ( where my grandma and aunties were educated and how they
have develop ROMANISED fookien language. Speak to Peggy Hwang who is now
residing in San Francisco who can give you accurate accounts.. or my
aunty Dee, in Vancouver who still recalls many stories.<br />
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I still have families from that region- that migrated to Australia like
us.. my dad is 90, most of them are still fluent in speaking English and
are students of the boys school Eng Hua in kulangyi.<br />
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Anyway, here's the book that may interest you - only 2 hard copies are
available in the world - state library in the states ( Peggy will know
as she has the other copy). Fortunately it's scanned - so here's the link to it.
This book" 40 years in china" is written for Rev John van nest Talmage
autobiography and about kolongsu island ( now is gulangyi) PASTOR and
published in 1894. A copy is kept in State library, USA<br />
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://ia700404.us.archive.org/6/items/fortyyearsins00fagg/fortyyearsins00fagg.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1478049159901000&usg=AFQjCNHrT1HofJ8mKubg6lFBQr3tOr_wcQ" href="https://ia700404.us.archive.org/6/items/fortyyearsins00fagg/fortyyearsins00fagg.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ia700404.us.archive.<wbr></wbr>org/6/items/<wbr></wbr>fortyyearsins00fagg/<wbr></wbr>fortyyearsins00fagg.pdf</a><br />
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Page 303 Rev IAP Han Chiong<br />
Page 201 photo of Sio-Ke valley<br />
Page 275 photo of women school giok-tek now<br />
Page 169 Rev IAP Han- Chiong 葉漢章牧師 family<br />
David yap chi beng father is 葉克寬mother is 李淑義<br />
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Thank you, Emily, for your email! I'll post more from my own collection about Pastor Iap when I have time.<br />
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Pastor Iap, by the way, wrote a <a href="http://oldchinaphotos.blogspot.com/2016/10/talmage-tribute-by-pastor-iap-han.html" target="_blank"><b>Tribute to John Van Nest Talmage</b></a>, which gives insights into the values and character traits that Iap thought important. <a href="http://oldchinaphotos.blogspot.com/2016/10/talmage-tribute-by-pastor-iap-han.html" target="_blank"><b>Click Here </b></a>to read it. <br />
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Enjoy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy!</b></a><br />
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Dr. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Bill </b></a><br />
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-13261056491960294152016-10-31T19:12:00.002-07:002016-10-31T19:27:09.151-07:00Talmage Tribute by Pastor Iap Han Chiong, 1st Pastor of Amoy's Bamboo Church<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ahoy from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy!</b></a> (modern <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Xiamen,</a> China)<br />
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I received an email today from Emily Cheng, 5th generation descendant of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a> Bamboo Church's first pastor, Iap Han Chiong (葉漢章牧師). <a href="http://oldchinaphotos.blogspot.com/2016/10/pastor-iap-han-chiong-chinas-first.html" target="_blank"><b>Click Here</b></a> to read her letter; if you have more information about Pastor Iap, please share it. Many of my old books have photos or text about pastor Iap, the first Chinese pastor to the Chinese church in Amoy (which was China's first Protestant church, so we can pretty much say Pastor Iap was the first Chinese pastor!).<br />
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I will post more about Pastor Iap, but for now, but this Tribute by Iap to <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm" target="_blank"><b>John Van Next Talmage</b></a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy's</b></a> pioneering preacher, teacher and educator) tells you much about the qualities that Iap saw as important in life. <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Click Here</b></a> for a short biography of <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Talmage</b></a> on the Amoy Mission section of our Amoy Magic website.<br />
<b><br />VENERABLE TEACHER <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm" target="_blank">TALMAGE</a>: TRIBUTE By PASTOR IAP HAN CHIONG.</b><br />
[Pastor Iap was the first pastor of the Chinese Church]Teacher <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Talmage </b></a>was very gentle. He wished ever to be at peace with men. If he saw a man in error he used words of meekness in convincing and converting the man from his error. Whether he exhorted, encouraged or instructed, his words were words of prudence, seasoned with salt, so that men were glad to receive and obey.<br />
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Teacher <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Talmage</b></a> was a lover of men. When he saw a man in distress and it was right for him to help, he helped. In peril, he exerted himself to deliver the man; in weakness, in danger of falling, he tried to uphold; suffering oppression, he arose to the defense, fearing no power, but contending earnestly <br />
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Teacher <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Talmage</b></a> was very gracious in receiving men, whether men of position or the common people. He treated all alike. If they wished to discuss any matter with him and get his advice, he would patiently listen to their tale. If he had any counsel to give, he gave it. If he felt he could not conscicntiously have anything to do with the affair, he told the men forthwith.<br />
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He could pierce through words, and see through men's countenances and judge what the man was, who was addressing him.<br />
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Teacher <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Talmage</b></a> had great eloquence and possessed great intelligence. His utterance was clear, his voice powerful, his exposition of doctrine very thorough. Men listened and the truth entered their ears and their hearts understood.<br />
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Teacher Talmage was grave in manner. He commanded the respect and praise of men. His was a truly ministerial bearing. Men within and without the Church venerated him.<br />
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Sometimes differences between brethren arose. Teacher <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Talmage</b></a> earnestly exhorted to harmony. Even serious differences, which looked beyond healing, were removed, because men felt constrained to listen to his counsel.<br />
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Teacher <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Talmage</b></a> was exceedingly diligent. When not otherwise engaged, morning and afternoon found him in his study reading, writing, preparing sermons, translating books.<br />
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He preached every Sabbath. He conducted classes of catechumens. He founded the Girls' School at the Church "Under the Bamboos." He founded the Theological Seminary. Others taught with him, but he was the master spirit. He was ten points careful that everything relating to the organization and administration of the Church should be in accordance with the Holy Book.<br />
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Only at the urgent request of two physicians did he finally leave China. He was prepared to die and to be buried at Amoy. And this was not because he was not honored in his ancestral country, or could find no home. No, he had sons, he had a brother, he had nephews and nieces, he had many relatives and friends who greatly reverenced and loved him.<br />
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But Teacher <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm" target="_blank"><b>Talmage</b></a> could not bear to be separated from the Church in China. Surely this was imitating the heart of Christ. Surely this was loving the people of China to the utmost.<br />
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Pastor Iap Han Chiong, Bamboo Church, Amoy (Xiamen<br />
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-80496694782718224402016-10-11T22:01:00.001-07:002016-10-11T22:01:07.471-07:00Edna Beekman, Amoy Missionary, Pioneer Chinese Women's Education<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It looks like <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu Islet </b></a>will finally receive UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2017, barring further complications (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Typhoon Meranti</b></a> recently made a mess of our beautiful little islet, as it did <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen Island</b></a>). And a bit part of Gulangyu's heritage was the work done by the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Amoymission1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Amoy Mission</b></a>--especially the pioneering medical work (first mission medical work in China) and educational work carried on by Talmage (Talmadge) and others. The tiny islet of <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu</b></a> not only had 20 colleges and schools but was also deemed the "richest square mile on earth" from 1900 to 1920, largely because in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a>, like nowhere else, Chinese and foreigners worked together.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a> pioneered education for children, for women, vocational and technical education, education for the blind--and also had a program to help rescue women and girls from slavery (human trafficking).<br />
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Below is a small pamphlet, "Living Stones," by Edna Beekman. a<b> </b>missionary in Amoy from 1914-1951).<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Living Stones,</span> by Edna Beekman<br /></b>THE Spring of 1930 has marked two Anniversaries in the educational work in Amoy, China the sixtieth year of the founding of the Amoy Girls' Primary School (the Developing Character school for Girls), and the tenth year of the establishment of the Amoy Girls' High School. A one reviews the history of those sixty years, and contrasts the present schools with those beginning of education for girls sixty years ago, one cannot but be impressed with the accomplishment of the year. <br /><br />Sixty years is not long, as time is reckoned in China and so it is not so far from the day" when it seemed, in Chinese eyes, a foolish to educate a girl as to attempt to educate a cow! Those, too, were the days of foot,binding, symbolic of the fettering of women, physically, mentally and spiritually. To see our girls today, with these fetters shattered, having their chance to develop in all three directions, one rejoices with them that the clear vision and high hope of those early missionaries as into the needs of the future and the possibilities of the womenhood of China, and so, in the face of almost unsurmountable obstacles, gave to the girls their chance.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj93nQHhEKc0FYvuWaULU1V6u1AFht_-VEhh7YsEUul-qH2QAgONKFop4FbkeewWuACyEJ0T6ggsLASxKGAqMWEvEztRpg8JHCvsP7uX0doOvCrNh9xlBuMWsdMQ9wFMk-EENFIUMRMu8i/s1600/Jade+Butterfly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Edna Beekman Amoy Mission pioneering girls womens education human trafficking white jade butterfly" border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj93nQHhEKc0FYvuWaULU1V6u1AFht_-VEhh7YsEUul-qH2QAgONKFop4FbkeewWuACyEJ0T6ggsLASxKGAqMWEvEztRpg8JHCvsP7uX0doOvCrNh9xlBuMWsdMQ9wFMk-EENFIUMRMu8i/s320/Jade+Butterfly.jpg" title="Edna Beekman Amoy Mission Jade Butterfly White Jade" width="320" /></a><br />And have they proved themselves worthy? Have they fittingly used these new opportunities that are theirs? Have they passed on to others the torch of service that they themselves received? Let us look at some of the "living stones" of these schools of ours.<br />
<br /><b>Education for girls has become such a popular thing</b> these days that we reach in our schools not only the children from Christian homes, but many, many from homes that do not know the light and peace of the Gospel. Two little sisters entered the first year of our Primary School. They were bright, lovable children, but not very strong. Misfortune seemed to follow them, for first one, then the other, met with accidents in school. After the fourth mishap, both children were absent from school for several days, and on going to their home to find out the reason, the neighbors told us that the grandmother had concluded that some evil spirit of misfortune was following the family, because the children had been allowed to go to a Christian school, and so she had moved away during the dark hours of the night leaving no address, so that the evil spirit might not be able to trace them!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimxRhnE3aoZBFmceZvi1qtdhzfyyU22VGZRcBTsARqgxjeuggPhLdlEdqFh_VycuZ9q_awnXwHeiXzEOyPISV8fgo6CFBYLJOoTRdOk6Hxskr7GKpFjNlAiUYnhZ0gD5KseWpuz6tr52PN/s1600/Embroidered+Scroll+Wedding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Edna Beekman Amoy Missions wedding Embroidered Scroll White Jade Jade Butterfly human trafficking slavery pioneering Chinese women's education" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimxRhnE3aoZBFmceZvi1qtdhzfyyU22VGZRcBTsARqgxjeuggPhLdlEdqFh_VycuZ9q_awnXwHeiXzEOyPISV8fgo6CFBYLJOoTRdOk6Hxskr7GKpFjNlAiUYnhZ0gD5KseWpuz6tr52PN/s320/Embroidered+Scroll+Wedding.jpg" title="Edna Beekman Living Stones wedding Embroidered Scroll White Jade Jade Butterfly" width="257" /></a>We feared we should not see them again, but a week later, to our joy, they reappeared at school, having given their grandmother no peace until she had permitted them to come. Their grandmother tries to prevent them from attending church and Sunday School, but they love to come, and are willing to risk a possible whipping in order to do so. The Bible stories they learn in school, and the hymns they love to sing, cannot help but have an influence on them in later years. And they give very generously of their spending money for the work of the Chinese Home Missionary Society.<br /><br /><b>"Gold Piece"</b> came to our school from a non-Christian home on Amoy Island. She was older and more mature then some of the other girls, and quickly assumed a position of leadership, becoming president of her class in the graduating year. When a small group of disgruntled girls, urged on by enemies of the school among the anti-Christian forces outside, went on strike and tried to involve the classes of the Higher Primary and bring about the closing of the school, "Gold Piece" and her friends threw the weight of their influence on the side of order and obedience, and most loyally helped to save the day. <b>"Gold Piece"</b> is determined that she will marry no one but a Christian.<br /><br />The year before she graduated, <b>"Gold Piece"</b> brought her little sister, <b>"Glorious Learning,"</b> to school one of our smallest boarding pupils. Everything was so new and strange to "Glorious Learning" that she went around with her eyes wide open and a thousand questions on her tongue. Sunday School was her chief joy, with the attendance charts, and gold stars and colored Bible picture cards which she treasured and looked over many times, repeating to herself the story illustrated by the picture. When she went home each month she showed the pictures and told the stories to her little brothers and cousins. The little metal pig that the children "fed" at Sunday School for the work among the lepers was her great delight, and when at the end of the term we "killed the pig" to see how much money we had, her excitement knew no bounds.<br /><br />A slave girl managed to escape from a house of ill fame and was taken into the Slave Refuge at Amoy. She attended our Women's School and became an earnest Christian. The pastor's wife became interested in her and recommended her to a widower who was looking for a second wife. Her influence immediately became felt in that home and she won the love of her step children. The oldest girl, "Pure" Flower" was sent to our school. We were warned that she was deceptive and untruthful and loved to gamble, but with Christian surroundings and training she developed into one of the most studious, polite and lovable girls of her class. At the time of the strike she stood by the school most loyally.<br /><br />When <b>"Embroidered Scroll"</b> first came to our school, she was a little bare-foot girl from the mountains. She did well in her studies and so was helped all the way through High School. Then she came back to the Primary School as a teacher, doing faithful work there for five years. The summer of 1928 she was married to a graduate of the Theological Seminary, and the young couple went back into the mountain districts to work. With their capabilities and training they could have had better opportunities, from a worldly standpoint of view, in churches nearer Amoy, but as they themselves said, "The need up"country is great, and we are accustomed to walk the mountain roads, so we feel our place of service is there." And how much it has meant to that isolated district in the mountains, to have these consecrated young people working there.<br /><br />His sister, <b>Jade Butterfly</b>, was our first Scholarship Girl with the Talmage Jubilee Fund, and all through High School she stood out as a leader. As president of the Y. W. C. A., she presided over the Armistice Day meeting of International Fellowship and Goodwill, when girls dressed to represent the different nations of the world led in a candle-light service of consecration a service that will live long in the memories of those who shared in it. She also served as superintendent of the Sunday School and conducted weekly children's meetings in Amoy. Her great desire is to train for church leadership, so after she has had some experience as a teacher she will probably be sent to the Nanking Bible Training School, to fit herself for that work.<br /><br /><b>"Upper Springs"</b> and <b>"Loving Grace"</b> were sent to the Amoy High School from our<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/longyan.htm" target="_blank"><b> Leng-na</b></a> [<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/longyan.htm" target="_blank"><b>Longyan</b></a>] Station so that they might be trained to carry on the work later in their own school. They both showed great initiative and executive ability, and interested themselves in many phases of the school life. Just before graduation the communists galned control of their district. The teacher to whom "Upper Springs" was engaged had to flee, so the two were married in Amoy after school closed, and went to Java, to carry the light of a Christian home and Christian education there. "Loving Grace" had been taken as a child into a family as a "little daughter-in -law," destined to marry the son in later years. He proved to be her inferior in every way, but because of the kindness of these foster parents through all the years, she felt it her duty to follow out their wishes. So upon graduation she returned to <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/longyan.htm" target="_blank"><b>Leng'na</b></a> [<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/longyan.htm" target="_blank"><b>Longyan</b></a>] and was married to this man, whom through all the years she had called "Brother." But when all the educated girls in that region were being forced by the Reds to do propaganda work, with the consent of the family she escaped to Amoy, where she is now teaching.<br /><br />Time would fail to tell of all who have gone through our schools and then gone out again to serve the church and the community as teachers, doctors, nurses, Bible women, elders and deacons, or as mothers in Christian homes. We are seeing the third generation in our chools now. Those girls of sixty years ago are now grandmothers and their grand,daughters are the scholars of today. Who can measure the influence that has gone out from our schools through these "living stones," or what our schools, with their emphasis not only on proficiency in the secular studies, but even more on the developing of character and training in Christian service, will mean to the China of the future?<br /><br />* * * * *<br />"Open the Abbey doors and bring him in,<br />To sleep with king and statesman, chief and sage;<br />The missionary come of weaver kin,<br />But great by work that brooks no lower wage.<br />He needs no epitaph to guard a name<br />Which men will prize while worthy work is known.<br />He lived and died for good; be that his fame.<br />Let marble crumble; this is Living stone."<br />* * * * *<br /><br />WOMAN'S BOARD OP FOREIGN MlSSIONS<br />Reformed Church in America<br />25 22nd Street<br />New York, N.Y.<br />
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-21226676897251263582016-09-22T22:50:00.003-07:002016-09-30T04:31:42.280-07:00Doctor Andrew Bonthius in Amoy, China <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ahoy from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> (historic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a>, China)!<br />
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Great news! It looks pretty certain that <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu</b></a><a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"> </a>(<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Kolongsoo</b></a>) Islet will in 2017 be designated a UNESCO World Heritage site! And, happily, more and more people are contacting me to ask for (or sometimes share) materials about their Chinese or foreign ancestors in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> and <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Kolongsoo.</b></a><br />
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The grandson of missionary doctor Andrew Bonthius contacted me in 2011, and even six years later, I've found almost nothing about him, except for a few brief notes about his work in <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/JohnOtte.htm" target="_blank"><b>Dr. John Otte's </b></a>letters.<b> If you have any information (written, photos, etc.), please share them with us! </b>We need as much material as possible (if possible, originals) to bolster our final claim for UNESCO World Heritage status, at which point we hope to be able to do even more to protect our very unique history.<br />
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Update! I've just learned part of the reason I can find nothing about Bonthius is that the Reformed Church of America's records misspell his name! De Jong's "The Reformed Church in China 1842-1951," the definitive book on the Amoy Mission, spells it Andrew Bontius and Andrew Benthius, but not the correct Andrew Bonthius!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Legacies,
too, were an important source of funds. Thus, a generous legacy
provided by Elizabeth Cappon, who served in China from 1891 to 1909, was
designated for the reconstruction of Neerbosch [first hospital built by
<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/JohnOtte.htm" target="_blank"><b>John Otte</b></a>]. Similarly, as a memorial to the mother of Dr. Andrew
Bontius, who served the mission from 1909 to 1914, the family made
provisions for a new chapel to serve the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Kulangsu </b></a>hospitals. Like the
building it replaced, it served the three-fold purpose of chapel,
reading room, and hall for lectures. The former chapel was then
converted into a large hospital ward."</span><br />
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Below is the letter from Dr. Andrew Bonthius' grandson (though I delete, of course, his email; if you'd like to contact him, please send me your email address and I'll forward it to him).<br />
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Enjoy Amoy!<br />
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Dr. Bill<br />
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<b>Andrew Bonthius II's 2011 Email about his Grandfather</b><br />
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Hello Mr. Brown.</div>
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My name is Andrew <span class="il">Bonthius</span> II. I am the grandson and namesake of Dr. Andrew <span class="il">Bonthius</span> who was a missionary doctor of the <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none;">Dutch Reformed Church</span>
in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a>), China from 1909 to 1913. <b>Mr. John de Velder</b>
suggested I contact you in my search for the chapel my grandfather
sponsored while he was there.</div>
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Dr. <span class="il">Bonthius</span> II was a surgical doctor
who performed many hundreds, if not thousands, of operations for
indigent Chinese and taught medicine while there as well as his main
task of missionary work. He was an assistant to <b><a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/JohnOtte.htm" target="_blank">Dr. Otte</a> </b>who fell ill
and died of the <span style="border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted;">pneumonic plague</span>
while in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen.</b></a> After tending to <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/JohnOtte.htm" target="_blank"><b>Dr. Otte</b></a> during his illness, my
grandfather was forced to return home in 1913 due to his own ill health,
ending his missionary career. He did bring with him, however,a
wonderful photo album of those years which I have in my
possession--handed down to me by my father Reverend Robert Harold <span class="il">Bonthius</span>, Ph D.</div>
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My understanding is that my grandfather made provisions for a
<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_HopeHospital.htm" target="_blank"><b>Christian chapel</b></a> to serve the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_HopeHospital.htm" target="_blank"><b>Kulangsu</b> <b>hospitals</b></a> for the three-fold
purpose of worship, reading room, and lecture hall. I wonder if you
know either of my grandfather's missionary work there or whether or not
the chapel is still standing. He was accompanied by his wife Nellie de
Young <span class="il">Bonthius</span> and they had two daughters born during their time in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy. </b></a></div>
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I hope to hear from you soon. Thank you very much.</div>
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</span></span><b>My June 20, 2011 Reply</b><br />
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was in Geneva when you sent your email, and my hard drive crashed
completely, irrecoverably, and I also lost the emails from that period. After returning to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen,</b></a> I put in a new hard drive—and just now saw your email on my other computer. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I attach a couple of documents that have very brief references to Dr. <span class="il">Bonthius</span>, and also part of a page in “In and About <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy,</b></a>” by Rev. Pitcher, which shows him in his three positions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Regarding the chapel—it still stands. In
fact, the two hospitals, as well as the chapel between them, were
recently beautifully renovated by the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu</b></a> and<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b> Xiamen</b></a> governments. It
was in terrible condition, and they considered razing the place, but
fortunately, they’ve become more and more interested in their heritage. I
attach a photo of the newly renovated hospital complex (which will be a
museum), and the chapel is the small white building between <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_HopeHospital.htm" target="_blank"><b>Hope Hospital </b></a>(on the left) and <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_HopeHospital.htm" target="_blank"><b>Wilhelmina Hospital </b></a>(on the right).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I regret that I have no other information about your grandfather (I did not even know he sponsored the chapel!). If you have information I could upload on the site about Dr. <span class="il">Bonthius</span> (and especially old photos), I would appreciate your sharing them. The
government has much interest in this heritage now—though when I first
started writing about it ten years ago, there was almost no interest). In
fact, only last Saturday I gave a lecture from the pulpit of the Union
Church (built in the 1860s), which the government spent over 4 million yuan helping to renovate, and will now be used for various Christian and social functions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Warm regards, Bill</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Again, my apologies for the delayed reply. I’ve
been swamped wrapping up this semester’s classes, grades, and preparing
to return to the U.S. for the summer next Tuesday (Fresno area). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I don’t have photos of the inside [of <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_HopeHospital.htm" target="_blank"><b>Hope Hospital and Hope Chape</b></a>l] because the facilities are closed until the work out the details of making it a museum. I did take some photos of the interior before they worked on it. It was a disaster, both inside and out. The
Japanese pretty much destroyed the buildings during their occupation,
so to see it in its present condition is a great encouragement. The government spent a small fortune to restore the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_HopeHospital.htm" target="_blank"><b>hospitals and chapel, </b></a>as well as the grounds. I do attach a picture of the Union Church’s interior before the government spent several million renovating it. The hospital and chapel looked almost exactly like this inside (run down, used for storage). Last Saturday, the Union Church (1860s) was officially reopened, with many leaders (vice mayor, etc.), TV
and newspapers, etc. in attendance, and I was blessed to give the first
talk from the pulpit (not a sermon, of course—though I did shock them
by suggesting we bow our heads in prayer, since it was a church).</span></div>
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grandfather would have attended Union Church, as well as the chapel, so
I attach photos of the original building, as it was before restoration,
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Your
grandfather would have known Colin Campbell Brown, who studied Chinese
on <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu</b></a> from about 1893-1895, then served 70 km. north in <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/MysticQuanzhou.htm" target="_blank"><b>Quanzhou</b></a>, starting a hospital, pasturing a church, and starting a homeschool that expanded and is today their best school. Two weeks ago, CC Brown’s two granddaughters visited and I spent 3 days showing them around <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a> and <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/MysticQuanzhou.htm" target="_blank"><b>Quanzhou.</b></a> The Quanzhou Evening News (one of S.E. China’s best papers) had an entire page about their visit. CC Brown wrote 3 books, and I had two but not the third one, so I was happy they gave me the one I was missing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Two
years ago, a former RCA missionary loaned me 8 photo albums from people
here during the 1920s to 1952. I scanned about 600+ photos at high
resolution, put them on DVDs, and gave copies to the church leaders, the
government, and the RCA archives at Holland, Michigan. They also now have the photo albums in their archives. Unfortunately,
the time span does not cover your grandfather’s stay here, but I have
many Hope Hospital photos if you’re interested. I attach an excellent old photo of the chapel and hospitals, taken by head nurse Jean Nienhius in 1924. I also attach a page from one album showing photos taken in <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_HopeHospital.htm" target="_blank"><b>Hope Chapel</b></a> of Dr. Holleman’s
farewell gathering, and a very nice 1927 photo of the chapel’s
interior. When I return to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a> in mid September, I will ask the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu</b></a> government to let me in the hospital and chapel for photos,
though I doubt the interior has had anything done to it yet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Regarding
your grandfather’s photos, it would be great if you could share them
with us, as almost all of my photos are from the 1920s to 1952, and the
mid 1850s to 1870s. I bought a high resolution scanner last year to scan the 8 albums of Jean Nienhuis,
and I’d be happy to pay for registered air to Fresno and back to you if
I could scan them, and provide you and the archives a DVD of the
photos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And if you’d agree, I could post some on the website, which might stimulate more interest about your grandfather. Many people have made connections through this and exchanged materials and photos (I have all of Dr. Ottes’ writings, by the way, which might mention your grandfather; I could scan them as well). I’ve been contacted by the descendants of most of the early missionaries here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Xiamen
is applying for UNESCO World Heritage Status for <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu</b></a> <b>(will happen in 2017!</b>],one of the
reasons they restored <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_HopeHospital.htm" target="_blank"><b>Hope Chapel and Hospital</b></a>), and we could really use
the photos for that as well. And finally, I’ve been helping the local churches compile a history of the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Amoymission1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Amoy Mission here</b></a>, and the photos would add a lot. Of course, all photo scans would be marked to show their source.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In
closing (sorry this is so long), I put out a book last year, “Old <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu</b></a> in Foreigners’ Eyes,” with over 500 photos, paintings,
drawings, etc., and excerpts from old books, diaries, journals, letters,
etc., describing <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu </b></a>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> from about the 1570s to 1952. I’d be happy to send you a copy of that.</span></div>
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-52967639244241903862016-09-20T07:26:00.002-07:002016-09-21T01:17:52.555-07:00Old Amoy China Bibliography & Sources<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ahoy from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> (historic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a>)!<br />
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Many have asked where I obtained the old maps, photos, journals, books etc. for my last few books on Fujian and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen </b></a>history and culture. Sadly--virtually none came from China. Most historic Fujian material was destroyed by the invading Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s. And quite a bit was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution when, right here on Gulangyu Islet, they made bonfires of priceless old books and photos and mementos (and bulldozed the over 300-year-old foreigners' cemetery with its beautiful tombstones; they did the same thing with Chinese heritage as well, so it wasn't just directed at us foreign devils).<br />
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Happily, though, it's easy to find so much online now. By searching eBay and used bookstores, I've found hundreds of old books, maps, photos, etc. My favorite sites are <a href="http://used.addall.com/Used/" target="_blank">http://used.addall.com/Used/</a> and Advanced Book Exchange (<a href="http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchEntry" target="_blank">www.Abebooks.com</a> -- my favorite, because they twice went to bat for me against unscrupulous book dealers). These two sites give you the results for thousands of sellers and allows you to compare prices. In comparing prices, be sure to factor in shipping costs. Some sites give very low prices but exorbitant shipping charges. <br />
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Nowadays, you can actually download most of these historic materials for free from the <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/" target="_blank">Project Gutenberg</a> site (over 50,000 free eBooks) or the <a href="https://archive.org/index.php" target="_blank">Internet Archives</a>, which has millions of old books and documents, as well as classic radio and TV programs (and movies) and the amazing "Waybackmachine"-- 505 billion archived internet webpages--which just proves that nothing is ever truly deleted once it is on the web. A sobering thought.<br />
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The materials are scanned by armies of volunteers and quality varies, but the files are fine for text--though the resolution of the photos is too low to be useful. That is why I've bought so many original books--to use the photos. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/christorconfuciu00macgrich#page/n5/mode/2up" target="_blank"><b>Click Here</b></a> to see the Internet Archives' scan of John MacGowan's "<a href="https://archive.org/stream/christorconfuciu00macgrich#page/n5/mode/2up" target="_blank">Christ or Confucius Which? The Story of the Amoy Mission</a>" (1885).<br />
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Once you've downloaded some of these millions of free online eBooks, you can send them to your Kindle by using the free Amazon application <a href="http://offthewallchina.blogspot.mx/2016/09/why-kindle-beats-smartphones-for-ebook.html" target="_blank"><b>Send to Kindle</b></a>. <a href="http://offthewallchina.blogspot.mx/2016/09/why-kindle-beats-smartphones-for-ebook.html" target="_blank"><b>Click Here</b></a> for an explanation of how to do that (and 7 reasons I now read eBooks on Kindle instead of a phone).<br />
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I started collecting books after I tried to get permission to use an old photo from a 100-year-old book at the New York City library. They wanted me to sign a contract promising to use the scan once, explaining what I was doing with the scan and why--and they demanded USD 175! Highway robbery. I politely declined (while, I regret thinking impolite thoughts), and not long afterwards I found the book for sale online for much less than NYC library was charging for one scan--and the book had over 40 photos!<br />
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To give you a head start, below are some of the most useful or interesting books that I've found for my research on old <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a> (<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Amoy</a>)</b>, Fujian (Fukien) and China.<br />
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Enjoy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy!</b></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><b>School of Management, Xiamen University<br />Amazon eBook </b></span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">"Discover Xiamen"</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Abend, Hallett, “Treaty
Ports,</b>” Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, New York, 1944</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Allom, Thomas and Wright,
the Reverend G.N.,</b> “China in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery,
Architecture, and Social Habits of that Ancient Empire,” Fisher, London and
Paris, 1843.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“The <i>Amoy Gazette</i>”
(<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun";">厦门钞报</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Amoy General Geographical
Description, &c.” China Review, Vol. 22, No.3, 1896</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anderson, John L., “Our
Horse Races in China,” in Outing, Vol. XVI, Issue 5, 5 August, 1890</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anderson, John A., M.D.,
“The Opium Question: A New Opportunity,” in Chinese Recorder, Vol. 37, August, 1906.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Anti-Cobweb Society,
</b>“Fukien Arts and Industries: Papers by Members of the Anti-Cobweb Society,
Foochow, Fukien, China,” Christian Herald Industrial Press, Foochow 1933. <span style="color: red;">Delightful book; explains why Fujian silk was as good or better than Hangzhou silk, and how our province earned more money from bamboo than from tea, for which we are globally famous.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Greetings from Amoy; Amoy
Mission, 1842-1907,” Pamphlet by Reformed Church of America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Asia Journal and Monthly
Register for British India and its Dependencies,”; Supplementary Intelligence,
Vol. XXVI, July to December 1828, London, 1828
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<span style="font-size: small;">Baldwin, Rev. S.L.D.D.,
“Lieutenant Wood on Missionaries in China,” Chinese Recorder, Vol. 20, Nov.
1889. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ball, Benjamin Lincoln,
</b>“Rambles in Eastern Asia: Including China and Manila, During Several Years
Residence,” James French and Company, Boston, 1856</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ball, J. Dyer, </b>“Things
Chinese; or Notes Connected with China,” Kelly & Walsh, Hong Kong,
1903 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ball, J. Dyer, “The
Celestial and his Religions: or, the religious aspect in China. Being a series of lectures on the religions
of the Chinese,” Kelly and Walsh, Hong Kong, 1906</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Band, Edward, </b>“Working His
Purpose Out: The History of the English Presbyterian Mission,” Presbyterian
Church of England, London, 1948 <span style="color: red;">Rare Amoy photographs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Barbour, George F.,</b> “China
and the Missions at Amoy, with Notice of the Opium Trade,” William P. Kennedy,
Edinburgh, 1855.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bax, Captain B.W., R.N,
“The Eastern Seas; Being a Narrative of the ‘Dwarf’ in China, Japan, and
Formosa,” John Murray, London, 1875 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Beach, Harlan P., “Dawn on
the Hills of T’ang, or, Missions in China,” Student Volunteer Movement for
Foreign Missions,” New York, 1905</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bedloe, Edward, M.D., U.S.
Consul, reporting in “Weekly Abstract of Sanitary Reports,” Supervising
Surgeon-General M.H,S., Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bedloe, Edward, M.D., U.S.
Consul in Amoy, :”Public Health Reports, Vol. 2, January 1, 1881</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Beltman, Henry, </b>“90 Years
with Uncle Henry,” Robert Schuller Ministries, Garden Grove, California, 1984 <span style="color: red;">Henry Beltman was the indefatigable uncle of Crystal Cathedral's Robert Schuller.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bishop, Mrs. J.F., “Chinese
Pictures; Notes on Photographs Made in China,” Cassell and Company Limited,
London, 1900</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Blakeslee, George H.,
Editor, “China and the Far East: Clark University Lectures,” Thomay Y. Crowell
and Co., New York, 1910</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>B.N., “The Drum Wave Island</b>
and other Verses of the China Coast,” Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1904 <span style="color: red;">Delightful poems, though I can find nothing about the author himself. Download it from my website at</span> <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Gulangyu_poems.htm" target="_blank"><b>http://www.amoymagic.com/Gulangyu_poems.htm</b></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Boehm, Lise,</b> “China Coast
Tales,” Kelly and Walsh Limited, Shanghai, 1897. “In the Sixties.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bonar, Rev. Andrew A</b>., “Memoir
of the Life and Brief Ministry of Rev. David Sandeman,” <br />
James Nisbet & Co., London, 1861.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Boulger, Demetrius Charles,
“China—Nations of the World Series,” Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1902</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bowra, Cecil A.V.,
Commissioner of Customs, “Amoy,” in Wright, 1908</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bradford, Ruth P.</b>, “The
Journal and Letters of Ruth Bradford, 1861-1872, Prospect Press, Hartford,
Connecticut, 1938. <span style="color: red;">Absolutely hilarious account of life in Amoy by the high-spirited and spoiled daughter of the U.S. consulate. I love the line drawings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Breck, Samuel, “Descendants
of Aaron and Mary (Church) Magoun, of Pembroke, Massachusetts, Third Edition,”
Washington, D.C., 1891.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Breuer, Hans, “Columbus was
Chinese, Discoveries and Inventions of the Far East,” Herder and Herder, New
York, 1972</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Brown, C. Campbell, </b>“China
in Legend and Story,” Fleming H. Revell Company, NY, 1907</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">Brown's two daughters visited me in Xiamen a few years ago and I showed them around their parents old haunts in Quanzhou. Amazing stories; Quanzhou Evening News published a great article on this after I donated Quanzhou several old books.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bruce, C.D., Colonel, “The
Provinces of China”; Reprinted from the National Review (China) as the “The
National Review Annual,” The National Review Office, Shanghai, 1910</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Caldwell, George W., M.D.,
“Oriental Rambles,” G.W. Caldwell, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1906.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Caldwell, “China Coast
Family</b>,” Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, 1953 <span style="color: red;">Amazing story of a Tennessee family of missionaries, naturalists and Amoy tiger hunters in Fujian from 1899 to the 1950s. Download my PDF scan from this page: <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Amoytiger.htm"><b>http://www.amoymagic.com/Amoytiger.htm</b></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Campbell, Rev.W., F.R.G.S.,
“Education and Work for the Chinese Blind,” Chinese Recorder, Vol. 21, p. 450,
October, 1889</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Carles, William Le Gendre,
U.S. Consul in Amoy, “How to Deal with China. A Letter to de B. Rand. Kiem,
Esquire, Agent of the United States, Amoy, 1871.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Chater, Paul Cachik;
Orange, James, “The Chater Collection: Pictures Relating to China, Hongkong,
Macao, 1655-1860; with Historical and Descriptive Letterpress by James Orange,”
London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1924</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Chinese
Recorder", Volume 5, American Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai, Volume
5, May</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Clarke, Basil, “Chinese
Science and the West,” Nile & MacKenzie, Ltd. London, 1980.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Close, Upton, “In the Land
of the Laughing Buddha; the Adventures of an American Barbarian in China,” G.P.
Putnam and Sons, New York & London, 1924.
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<span style="font-size: small;">Coffin, George, A Pioneer
Voyage to California and Round the World, 1849 to 1852” Gorham B. Coffin, Illinois, June, 1908.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Cope, Captain, "A New
History of the East-Indies: With Brief Observations on the Religion, Customs,
Manners and Trade of the Inhabitants...", M. Cooper, London, 1754.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Corwin, Edward Tanjore,
D.D. “A Manual of the Reformed Church in America (Formerly Reformed Dutch
Church), 1628-1902, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1902.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Cressy-Marcks, Violet,
“Journey into China,” E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1942</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gordon-Cumming, Miss, “The
Explosion at Amoy,” St. James’ Gazette, in Littell’s Living Age, Feb. 4, 1888.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Cunynghame, Colonel Arthur
Augustus Thurlow, "An Aide-De-Camp's Recollections of Service in China, A
Residence in Hong-Kong, and Visits to Other Islands in the Chinese Seas,"
London, 1853</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Curtis, Benjamin Robbins,
“Dottings Round the Circle,” James R. Osgood & Company, Boston, 1876</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">D’Almeida, Anna, “A Lady’s
Visit to Manilla and Japan,” Hurst and Blackett, London, 1863.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Darley, Mary, “Cameos of a
Chinese City,” [Jian ‘Ou] Church of England Zenana Missionary Society,
Missionary Society, 27 Chancery Lane, London, 1917</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Darley, Mary, “The Light of
the Morning,” Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, Missionary Society,
27 Chancery Lane, London, 1903</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Davis, John Francis, “The
Chinese: General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants,” Vol.
2, Charles Knight & Company, London, 1836</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Davis, Rev. J.A., “The
Young Mandarin; a Story of Chinese Life” Congregational Sunday-School and
Publishing Society, Boston and Chicago, 1896</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dean, William, “The China
Mission: Embracing a History of the Various Missions of All Denominations Among the Chinese, with
Biographical Sketches of Deceased Missionaries,” Sheldon & Co., New York,
1859</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>De Jong, Gerald F.,</b> “The
Reformed Church in China 1842-1951,” Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Michigan,
1992 <span style="color: red;">This is THE definitive modern work on the Amoy Mission.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Denby, Hon. Charles, LL.D.,
[Thirteen Years United States Minister to China], “China and Her People: Being
the Observations, Reminiscences, and Conclusions of an American Diplomat, Vol.
II, L.C. Page and Company, Boston, 1906</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Denby, Hon. Charles, LL.D.,
“China’s Open Door,” Lothrop Publishing, Boston, 1900 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dennis, Rev. James S.,
“Christian Missions and Social Progress: A Sociological Study of Foreign
Missions,” Vol. III, Fleming H. Revell Company, NY, 1906</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">DeVelder, Walter, “A
Missionary Journey Over Nine Decades” (unpublished).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dobell, Peter, “Travels in
Kamtchatka and Siberia, with a Narrative of a Residence in China, Vol. II,
London, 1830. Dobell: Counselor of the
Court of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">du Halde, P., “ The General
History of China,” (4 vols: London, 1741), vol.1 p.169. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dukes, Edwin Joshua</b>,
“Everyday Life in China; or, Scenes Along River and Road in Fuh-Kien,” London
Missionary Society’s Edition, The Religious Tract Society, 56, Paternoster Row;
65, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and 164, Piccadilly, 1885 <span style="color: red;">This delightful book has dozens of engraved illustrations of Chinese life in Fujian, including Amoy and Kulongsoo (Gulangyu).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Duryea, Rev. William Rankin D.D.</b>, “The Amoy Mission,” Excerpted from “A Manual of the Missions of
the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America,” by Sangster, Mrs. Margaret E., Ed.;
Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America, New York, 1877,
pp.170-209</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ecke, Gustav, and
Demieville, P.,</b> “The Twin Pagodas of Zayton,” Harvard University Press,
Massachusetts, 1935. <span style="color: red;">Ecke, a German scholar, erected two full-sized wooden scaffolds around these two 1000-year-old pagodas and photographed every stone engraving! Amazing book; very rare. Quanzhou government copied the volume in Beijing but I managed to buy a copy myself. This project was written about in "A Race of Green Ginger" (another of my favorites on this list).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Edkins, Jane Rowbotham
Stobbs, </b>“Chinese Scenes and People: With
Notices of Christian Missions and Missionary Life in a Series of Letters from
Various Parts of China,” James Nisbit and Company, London, 1863 <span style="color: red;">Beautiful descriptions of early Amoy, making comparisons to Scotland.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Edkins, Joseph, D.D.,
“Introduction to the Study of the Chinese Characters,” Trubner and Company,
London, 1875</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Edkins, Rev. J., D.D.,
“Early Forms of Chinese,” Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, March-April, 1885.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">English Presbyterian
Messenger, Vol 1. 1<sup>st</sup> May 1845 to 31<sup>st</sup> December 1847,
Hamilton, Adams, and Co., Paternoster-Row, London, 1847</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Esther. Joe, “This Is The
Way, Walk Ye In It,” Privately printed, Redlands, Ca. 1977</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eve, Paul F. M.D. and Garvin, I.P. M.D. “The Southern Medical and
Surgical Journal Vol. 1, 1845 New Series,” P.C. Guieu Publisher, Augusta, Jan.
1845</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fagg, John Gerardus,
Chinese Recorder,Vol. 23,Nov.1892.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fagg, John Gerardus</b>, “Forty Years in China, the
Life of Rev.John van Nest Talmage,”
Brooklyn, 1894</span></div>
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"Methods of Self Support," Chinese
Recorder, Vol. 29, No. 2, Feb. 1898</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fergusson, James, “The
Illustrated Handbook of Architecture,” John Murray, London, 1855</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fisher, Lena Leonard, “The
River Dragon’s Bride,” Abingdon Press, New York, 1922</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ford, John D., “An American
Cruiser in the East, Travels and Studies in the Far East,” 2<sup>nd</sup>
Edition, With an Account of the Battle of Manila, April 30, 1898, A.S. Barnes
and Company, New York, 1898 Ford was
First Engineer of the Pacific Station, United States Navy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Forgues-Daurand,
Paul-Emile, “La Chinese Ouverte, Adventures d’un Fan-Kouei dans le pays de
Tsin,” H. Fournier, Paris, 1845 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Foster, John W., “American
Diplomacy in the Orient,” 1903.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Foster, Ellsworth, D. Ed.,
“The World Book,” Vol. 1, The World Book Inc., Chicago, 1918.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Franck, Harry A.,</b>
“Wandering in Northern China,” The Century Co., New York, 1923 <span style="color: red;">Franck wrote large, fascinating volumes filled with priceless photographs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Franck, Harry A., </b>“Roving
Through Southern China,” The Century Co., New York, 1925.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fullerton, W.Y., andWilson,
C.E., “New China—A Story of Modern Travel,” Morgan and Scott, Ltd., (Office of
the Christian), 12 Paternoster Buildings, London, 1910.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gamewell, Mary Ninde, “New
Life Currents in China,” Interchurch Press, New York, 1919</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gaunt, Rev. L.H., Ed., “The
Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, Vol. VIII, No. 85 New Series,”
London, 1899</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Giles, Herbert Allan, L.L.D.,</b>
“A Short History of Koolangsu,” Amoy, 1878.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Giles, Herbert Allen,
L.L.D.</b>, “China and the Chinese,” Columbia University Press, N.Y., 1902.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Gillespie, Rev. William,
“The Land of Sinim, or, China and Chinese Missions,” Myles Macphail, London,
1854 [Gillespie was “For seven years
agent of the London Missionary Society at Hong-Kong and Canton, and now
minister of the United Presbyterian Church, Shiels, Aberdeen.”]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Goodrich, Joseph King, “The
Coming China,” A.C. McClure Co., Chicago, 1911</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gordon-Cumming, Miss, in
“Littell’s Living Age,” Fifth Series, Volume LXL, No Feb. 4, 1888.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gottschall, Terrell D., “By
order of the Kaiser,” Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2003</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Graves, Rev. Rosewell
Hobart, “Forty Years in China,” R.H. Woodward Company, Baltimore, 1895. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Griffis, William Elliot
Griffis, D.D., L.H.D., “Hepburn of Japan, and His Wife and Helpmates; a Life
Story of Toil for Christ,” Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1913</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Groot, J.J.M., "The
Religious System of China, its ancient forms, evolution, history and present
aspect. Manners, customs and social institutions
connected therewith," Vol. 1, 1892.
Book 1. Disposal of the Dead. Vol. 1,
Part. 1 Funeral Rites, Chapter 1, The Decease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gutzlaff, Karl F. A.,</b>
“Journal of Three Voyages Along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832, and 1833,”
Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, London, 1834. <span style="color: red;">Wonderful, insightful descriptions of Amoy and its people.</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Gutzlaff, Charles, Rev. by
Rev. Andrew Reed, D.D., “China Opened; or, A Display of the Topography,
History, Customs, Manners, Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, Literature, Religion,
Jurisprudence, etc. of the Chinese Empire,” Vol. II Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1838. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Haffner, Christopher,</b>
“Amoy—The Port and the Lodge,” The Corinthian Lodge of Amoy, No. 1806 EC, Hong
Kong, 1997</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hamilton, Alexander, “New
Account of the East Indies, Being the Observations and Remarks of Captain Alexander
Hamilton, 1688-1723,” King’s Printing House, printed by John Mosman, Edinburgh,
1727</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hart, Robert, “These from
the Land of Sinim: Essays on the Chinese Questions,” Chapman and Hall, London,
1901. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Headland, Isaac Taylor,
“China’s New Day,” Frank Wood Printer, Boston, Massachusetts, 1912.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hewlett, Sir Meyrick,
“Forty Years in China,” Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1943. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hobson, John M.,”The
Eastern Origins of Western Civilization,” Cambridge Univ. Press, U.K. 2004.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Holkeboer, Tena, “God’s
Bridge, or the Story of Jin-Gi,” Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand
Rapids, MI, 1944</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hollister, Mary Brewster,
“Lady Fourth Daughter of China,” The Central Committee on the United Study of
Foreign Missions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1932</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hughes, George, [Commissioner
of Imperial Maritime Customs at Amoy] “Amoy and Surrounding Districts,” De Souza
and Company, Hong Kong, 1872</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hurlbut, Floy, “The
Fukienese: a Study in Human Geography,” Doctoral dissertation for University of
Nebraska, 1939</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Johnston, Rev. James.,</b>
“China and Formosa; The Story of a Successful Mission,” Hazell, Watson, &
Viney, Ld. London, 1898 </span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Johnston, Meta and Lena,</b>
Jin Ko-Niu—A Brief Sketch of the Life of Jessie M. Johnston For Eighteen Years
W.M.A. Missionary in Amoy, China, T. French Downie 21 Warwick Lane, London,
E.C. 1907 <span style="color: red;">Heartwarming story of this young female missionary who spent her life on Amoy women's education. <b>Read it at: </b> <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/jessie1.htm"><b>http://www.amoymagic.com/jessie1.htm</b></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Joseland, Rev. Frank P.
“Our Missionary Districts, Amoy and Chiang-Chiu”, in Gaunt, 1899.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Keith, Marian, “The Black
Bearded Barbarian: The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa,” The Missionary
Society of the Methodist Church, The Young People’s Forward Movement
Department, Toronto, 1912.</span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Kesson, John (of the
British Museum),“The Cross and the Dragon, or, The Fortunes of Christianity in
China, with Notices of the Christian Missions and Missionaries, and some
Accounts of the Chinese Secret Societies,”Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1854.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">King, F. H. , D. Sc., “Farmers of Forty Centuries, or,
Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan,” University of Wisconsin, 1911</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">King, John W., Master,
R.N.,The China Pilot, Comprising the Coasts of China, Korea, and Tartary; The
Sea of Japan, Gulfs of Tartary and Amur, and Sea of Okhotsk; and the …” 3<sup>rd</sup> Edition, Hydrographic Office,
Admiralty, London, 1861.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Knollys, Major Henry,</b>
“English Life in China,” Smith, Elder & Company, London, 1885</span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Kwantes, Helen, “She has
done a Beautiful Thing for me; Portraits of Christian Women in Asia.” OMF
Books. </span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>LaMotte, Ellen N.,</b> “Peking
Dust,” The Century Company, New York, 1919. <span style="color: red;">Very insightful!</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Lawrence, James B.,
U.S.M.C. “China and Japan, and a Voyage Thither: An Account of a Cruise in the
Waters of the East Indies, China and Japan,” Press of Case, Lockwood &
Brainard, Hartford, Connecticut, 1870.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lawrence, Una Roberts,
“Lottie Moon,” Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention,
Nashville, 1927</span></div>
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman, “Portraits
from a Chinese Scroll,” the John C. Winston Company, Chicago, 1938</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Liddell, T. Hodgson,
“China, it’s Marvel and Mystery,” John Lane, New York, 1909</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lin, Yutang, </b>“My Country
and My People,” Foreign Language and Teaching Press, Beijing, 1998. <span style="color: red;">Lin Yutang, from nearby Zhangzhou (two hours from Xiamen) wrote amazing books in English. The greatest 20th century Chinese writer!</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Little, Archibald, Mrs.</b>
“Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them,” Hutchinson & Co.,
London, 1899 <span style="color: red;">Large, heavy volume chock full of great photographs.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Lockhart, William, The
Medical Missionary in China: A Narrative of Twenty Years' Experience, Hurst and
Blackett, Publishers, Spottiswoode and Company, London, 1861</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Low, Captain Charles
Porter, “Some Recollections by Captain Charles P. Low: Commanding the Clipper
Ships “Houqua,” “Jacob Bell,” “Samuel Russell,” “and “N. B. Palmer,” in the
China Trade 1847-1873,” George H. Ellis Company, Boston, 1906</span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lowrie, Rev. Walter M.,
“Memoirs,</b>” Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, New York,
1850.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lu, C.C., of Ningpo, China
“China and England: a Lecture Delivered at Sheffield University,” Sheffield
Independent Press, Sheffield, U.K., 1904</span></div>
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Macaulay, Hastings, “A
Cruise in the China Seas,” G.P. Putnam & Company, New York, 1852.</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>MacCauley, Hastings</b>, Life
Among the Chinese, Carlton and Porter, New York, 1861.</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>MacGowan, John</b>, “The
History of Self-Support in the London Mission,” Chinese Recorder, Vol. 18,
December, 1887. <span style="color: red;">I have all of MacGowan's books. Very insightful writing and priceless photographs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Macgowan, Rev. John,</b>
“Christ or Confucius, Which?, or, The Story of the Amoy Mission,” London
</span>Missionary Society, 14 Blomfield Street, E.C.; John Snow & Co., 2 Ivy Lane,
Paternoster Row, E.C. 1895</span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Macgowan, Rev. John,
</b>“Pictures of Southern China,” The Religious Tract Society, London, 1897</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Macgowan, Rev. John,
</b>“Sidelights on Chinese Life,” Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Limited, London,
1907</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Macgowan, Rev. John,
</b>“Lights and Shadows of Chinese Life,” North China Daily News & Herald Ltd.,
Shanghai, 1909</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Macgowan, Rev. John,</b> “Men
and Manners of Modern China,” T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1912. </span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Macgowan, John, </b>“How
England Saved China,” T. Fisher Unwin,
London, 1913.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Macgowan, John,</b> “Beside the
Bamboo,” London Missionary Society, 16 New Bridge Street, London, 1914. </span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Macgregor, Rev. W. Letter
dated January 14, 1875, in The Messenger and Missionary Record of the
Presbyterian Church in England, London, April 1, 1875 </span></div>
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Macguire, Theophane, C.P.,
“Hunan Harvest, Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, 1946.</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil,</b>
“A Race of Green Ginger,” Putnam, London, 1959 <span style="color: red;">My favorite account of foreign life on Gulangyu and in Amoy in the 1920s and 30s. She also wrote about Ecke, the German who photographed Quanzhou's (Zayton's) twin pagodas.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Maclay, Rev. R. S</b>., “Life
Among the Chinese: With Characteristic Sketches and incidents of Missionary
Operations and Prospects in China,” Carlton & Porter, New York, 1861.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">MacPherson, D., M.D., “Two
Years in China: Narrative of the Chinese Expedition, from its formation in
April, 1840, to the treaty of peace in August, 1842,” Saunders and Otley,
London, 1843. </span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Manson-Bahr, Sir Ph-ilip,</b>
“Patrick Manson, The Father of Tropical Medicine,” Thomas Nelson and Sons,
Ltd., Edinburgh, 1962 <span style="color: red;">Gulangyu was called the Cradle of Tropical Medicine because it was here that Manson discovered the link between mosquitoes and malaria. Read more here: </span><a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Manson.htm"><b>http://www.amoymagic.com/Manson.htm</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Martin, Robert
Montgomery, China; political,
commercial, and social; in an official report to her Majesty’s Government, Vol.
II, James Madden, London, 1847</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Matheson, Donald, Esq.,
“Narrative of the Mission to China of the English Presbyterian Church, with
Remarks on the Social Life and Religious Ideas of the Chinese, by the Rev.
James MacGowan (London Missionary Society of Amoy), and Notes on Climate,
Health and Outfit, By John Carnegie, Esq., M.D. of Amoy”, James Nisbet and
Company, London, 1866.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Matheson, Mrs., Ed., <i>Memorials
of Hugh M. Matheson</i> [1921-1898] Edited by his wife with a prefatory note by
the Rev. J. Oswald Dykes, M.A., D.D. Principal of Westminster College,
Cambridge. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
1899</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Mathews, Basil, and
Southon, Arthur E., “Torchbearers in China, Missionary Education Movement of
the United States and Canada,” New York, 1924</span></div>
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Mayers, Wm. Fred, and
Dennys, N.B., “The Treaty Ports of China and Japan,” Trubner & Company,
London, 1867</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">McCasland, David, “Eric
Liddell-Pure Gold,” Discovery House Publishers, Michigan, 2001.</span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Menpes, Mortimer, and
Blake, Sir Arthur Henry, “China,” Adam and Charles Black, London, 1909.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">“Messenger and Missionary
Record of the Presbyterian Church in England,” London, April 1, 1875</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Metcalf, Franklin P.,
“Travellers and Explorers in Fukien before 1700,” The Hong Kong Naturalist,
December, 1934</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Methodist Episcopal Church
Missionary Society, “The Gospel in All Lands Illustrated,” Eugene R. Smith,
Publisher, New York, Jan.-June, 1881</span></div>
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Michie, Alexander, “The
Englishman in China During the Victorian Period, as Illustrated by the Career
of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in
China and Japan, Vol. I”, William
Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1900 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Millard, Thomas E., “Our
Eastern Question: America’s Contact with the Orient and the Trend of Relations
with China and Japan,” The Century Company, NY, 1916</span></div>
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Miller, Basil, “Twenty Four
Missionary Stories from China,” Beacon Hill Press, Kansas City, Missouri, 1948</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Miller, J.Martin, “China
Ancient and Modern,” Sanderson-Whitten Publishing Co. Los Angeles, 1900</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Morse, Hosea Ballou, “The
Trade and Administration of China,” Green and Company, London, 1919. Ballou was “Sometime Commissioner of
Customs and Statistical Secretary, Inspectorate General of Customs.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Murray, Lieutenant
Alexander,[18<sup>th</sup> Royal Irish]
“Doings in China—Being the Personal Narrative of an Officer Engaged in
the Late Chinese Expedition, From the Recapture of Chusan in 1841 to the Peace
in Nankin in 1842.” Richard Bentley, London, 1843 </span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Nautical Magazine and Naval
Chronicle for 1852, A Journal of Papers
on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Notes on a Voyage to China in Her
Majesty’s Late Screw Steamer Reynard.—P. Cracroft, Commander. Simpkin,
Marshall and Co., Ltd.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Needham, Joseph, </b>“Science
in Traditional China,” Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1981.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Neill, Desmond,</b> “Elegant
Flower—First Steps in China,” John Murray, Albemarle St., London, 1956</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">Second only to Race of Green Ginger in describing Amoy life for foreigners in the 1940s. Insightful, humorous.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nevius, Helen S.C</b>., “Our
Life in China,” Robert Carter and Brothers, New York, 1869. <span style="color: red;">Unique insight on how the "3 Self Principles" for Chinese churches (which arose in Amoy in the 1950s, not with Communist China after 1949--the Communists just adopted these wise principles) made the Amoy mission the strongest--and how they were taken to Korea!</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Nevius, Dr. John L.,
Chinese Recorder, Vol. 23, Nov. 1892.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Ng, Chin-Keong, “Trade and
Society—The Amoy Network on the China Coast 1683-1735,” Singapore University
Press, Singapore, 1983</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Oldham, Rev. H.W.,</b>
“Educational Mission Work in and near Amoy,” Changpu, in Chinese Recorder, June
1908.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Orange, James, :The Chater
Collection; Pictures Relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1865-1860, Thornton
Butterworth, Limited, London, 1924</span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Otte, Frances Phelps, “The
Christian Intelligencer,” Dec. 4, 1901 (from Taitan, Amoy, letter, August
1901).</span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Phillips, George, “Zaitun
Researches” Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, March-April, 1877.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Pinkerton, J., “A General
Collection of Voyages and Travels, digested by J. Pinkerton,” 1811, Vol. 8.
London, 1812</span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pitcher, Philip Wilson,
</b>“Fifty Years in Amoy, a History of the Amoy Mission,” Reformed Church of
America Board of Publication, NY, 1893 <span style="color: red;"></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Pitcher, Rev. P.W., Letter
from Amoy Boy’s Academy, Kolongsu, Dec. 22<sup>nd</sup>, 1894, in Chinese Recorder, Vol.26, February.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Pitcher, Rev. P.W.,
"The Native Pastorate at Amoy; or Another Object-Lesson in Self-Support,"
Amoy, July 26th, 1900; in Chinese Recorder, Vol. 31, October, 1900 pp. 503-509, and Nov., pp. 550-
"The Amoy Plan."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pitcher, Philip Wilson,</b> “In
and About Amoy,” Methodist Publishing House, Shanghai, 1912 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">This is THE book on early 20th century Amoy. Amazing book, great photos.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Regnault, Elias, and Doane,
Augustus Sidney, "The Criminal History of the English Government: From the
First Massacre of the Irish, to the Poisoning of the Chinese," translated
from the French, J.S. Redfield, New York, 1843</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Richard, Timothy, “Forty
Five Years in China; Reminiscences,” Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York,
1916</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Ross, Frank, Jr., “Oracle Bones,
Stars, and Wheelbarrows, Ancient Chinese Science and Technology,” Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston, 1982</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Rudy, Stella M., “Children
of China,” Rand McNally and Company, Chicago, 1937</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sadler, Rev. James F.</b>,
“Chinese Customs and Superstitions, or, What They do at Amoy,” China Review,
XXII, No. 6, 1897.</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sadler, Rev. James F., </b>“The
Anglo-Chinese College at Amoy,” in Gaunt, 1899.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Sale, George, and others,
“The Modern Part of an Universal History: From the Earliest Account of Time,”
VOL. VIII, Compiled from Original Writers, Printed for Richardson, S., et al.,
London, 1759. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sangster, Mrs. Margare</b>t E.,
Ed.; “A Manual of the Missions of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America,”
Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America, New York, 1877.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Scarth, John, “Twelve Years
in China,” Thomas Constable and Company, Edinburgh, 1860 </span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Scott, Roderick,</b> “Fukien
Christian University,” United Board for Christian Colleges in China, NY, 1954.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Selby, Thomas Gunn,</b> “As the
Chinese See Us,” Fisher Unwin, London, 1901 <span style="color: red;">As useful an insight today as it was 115 years ago.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Shore, Hon. Henry Noel,
R.N., “The Flight of the Lapwing, A Naval Officer’s Jottings in China, Formosa
and J apan,” Longmans, Green and
Company, London, 1881</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Singleton, Esthe</b>r, “China: Described
by Great Writers,” Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1912 <span style="color: red;">Delightful insightful book.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Sirr, Henry Charles, “China
and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufacturers; the
Evils Arising from the Opium Trade,” Vol. I, Wm. S. Orr and Company, London
1849 </span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Smith, D. Warres, </b>“European
Settlements in the Far East,” Sampson, Low, Marston & Company, London, 1900
</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Smith, Mary Augusta Doty,</b>
“The China Story: Recollections of a Little Girl’s Life in Amoy, China,”
unpublished memoir. [Daughter of Elihu
Doty, RCA Missionary to China, 1844-1864] <span style="color: red;">Great read. Unpublished, but I've uploaded it here: </span><a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_DotyMary1.htm">http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_DotyMary1.htm</a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Smith, Rev. J.N.B.,
"Money and Missions, in Chinese Recorder, Vol. 29, No. 2, Feb. 1898</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Smith, George, A Narrative
of an Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of China, on behalf of
the Church Missionary Society, in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846,” Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York,
1857. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Soothill, William </b>E., “A
Mission in China,” Young People’s Missionary Movement, New York, 1907</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Spencer, Cornelia </b>“Made in
China,” Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1952. <span style="color: red;">One of my favorite books on Chinese inventions, even to this day--with a forward by Lin Yutang.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Stevens, John Austin, “The
Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, vol. IV”, A.S. Barnes and
Company, New York, 1880.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Stock, Eugene, The History
of the Church Missionary Society; its Environment, its Men and its Work, Vol.
III,” Church Missionary Society, London, 1890.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Stoddard, John L., “Stoddard’s
Lectures,” Stationer’s Hall, London, 1897</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Surgeon T.T. Jeans, R.N.,
“Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol. V, July to Dec. 1897” </span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tai, En Sai, “</b>Treaty Ports
in China: a Study in Diplomacy,” Columbia University Printing Office, New York,
1918 </span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Talman, Rose H</b>., “Our China
Years, 1916-1930,” unpublished notes, provided by Sarah Koeppe.</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Temple, Robert,</b> “The Genius
of China; 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention,” Prion Books Limited,
London, 1998.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Teresi, Dick, “Lost
Discoveries, The Ancient Roots of Modern Science—from the Babylonians to the
Maya,” Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Thomson, John,</b> “The Land
and the People of China,” Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London,
1876. <span style="color: red;">Some of the earliest photographs of China, including Amoy.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Thomson, Rev. J.C., M.D.,
“Historical Landmarks of Macao,” Chinese Recorder, Vol.19, August, 1888</span></div>
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Thomson, John,</b> “The
Chinese,” Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1909</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Timothy, Richard,
“Forty-Five Years in China—Reminiscences by Timothy Richard, D.D., Litt.D.,”
Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1916</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Warnshuis, Rev.</b> A.L., M.A.,
“A Brief Sketch of the Life and Work of Dr. John A. Otte,” Amoy Mission, China
, 1911</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Watson, Alfred T.,
“Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol. V, July to Dec. 1897”, Longmans,
Green and Company, London, 1907</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Webb, John, “The Antiquity
of China, Or An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability that the language of
the Empire of China is the Primitive Language spoken through the whole world
before the Confusion of Babel. Wherein
the Customes and Manners of ye Chineans are presented, and ancient and modern
Authors consulted. With a large Map of
the Countrey,” Obadiah Blagrave, &c., London, 1678 </span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Werner, E.T.C., </b>“Myths
& Legends of China,” George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1922. <span style="color: red;">Fascinating, with excellent color illustrations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>White, Francis Sellon, </b>“A
History of Inventions and Discoveries,” C. & J. Rivington, London, 1827</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: small;">Williams, Dwight, Mrs., “A
Year in China, and a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, when Homeward
Bound, on Board the Rebel Pirate Florida; with an Introductory Note by William
Cullen Bryant,” Hurd and Houghton, New York, 1864. [Williams was the Commissioner of Customs at
Swatow, employed by the Chinese].</span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Williams, Edward Thomas,</b>
“China—Yesterday and Today,” George G. Harrap & co., Ltd., London, 1923 <span style="color: red;">Insightful comments on China.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Williamson, Rev. G.R.,
</b>“Memoir of the Rev. David Abeel, D.D.” Robert Carter, New York, 1848</span></div>
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</span><br />
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wright, Arnold,
Editor-in-Chief, “Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and
other Treaty Ports of China,” Lloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Company, Ltd.,
London, 1908</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Variations on
Romanization of Chinese Names</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Even into the 20<sup>th</sup>
century, there was no standardized Romanized spelling of most Chinese names. Amoy was complicated further by the fact that
place names were rendered in both Mandarin Chinese and, primarily, Amoy Dialect
Romanizations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun";">厦门</span></b><span style="font-family: "simsun";">: </span>Xiamen:
Amoy, E’meng, Hsiamen, Emwy, Hemouy, Hiamen, Emowi </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun";">鼓浪屿</span></b><b><span lang="ZH-CN"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "simsun";"><b>: </b></span>Gulangyu:
Kulongsu, Koolangsoo, Koolangsu, Cullemshoe</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun";">泉州: </span></b>Quanzhou: Chinchew, Chin-chew, Chinchu, Chwanchow, Tsuen-tcheou-foo,
Chincheo, Cayton, Zaitun, Zayton, Zaiton, Zaithoum</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun";">福州: </span></b>Fuzhou: Fu-cheuo-foo, Fuchow, Foochow, Fuh-Chau., Focheu</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun";">台湾: </span></b>Taiwan: Teywon, Formosa</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun";">郑成功: </span></b>Koxinga: Cocksing, Coxinga</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun";">福建: </span></b>Fujian, Fukien, Fuh-kien, Fokyen</span></div>
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-32698561493028735002016-07-21T21:06:00.003-07:002016-07-21T21:06:44.110-07:00Henry Swords Meade in Amoy and Shanghai!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ahoy from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy!</b></a> I just received an interesting email (below) from a Susan H. of Dublin who is researching her roots in 19th century <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> (present day <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a>) and Shanghai. If you have any information, please contact me and I'll pass it on to her!<br />
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Enjoy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy!</b></a><br />
<br />
Dr. Bill<br />
<br />
Hi Bill,<br />
<div>
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<div>
I came across your blog when searching
online for information on catholic cemeteries on <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Amoy </a></b>Island, Shanghai.
My grandfather, Henry Swords Meade was born on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy i</b></a>n 1885 and his two
sisters Norah( in 1887) and Minnie (in 1888) were born in Shanghai. It
also seems from looking at an Irish Census for 1901 that there was a
half sister called Mary Meade who was also born in China (cannot make
out the location) in 1871.</div>
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<div>
I know that their
father was Harbourmaster or Head of the Port of Shanghai at this time
(John Meade?). They are all buried in Ireland but Henry Swords Meade and
his sisters Minnie and Norah's Mother died of (typhus, we believe) in<b>
</b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b> </a>and is buried there. When their Mother, Mary, died the children
were sent back to be "reared" by family in Ireland and they were in
Ireland in 1901 at the date of the Census.</div>
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We think that their Mother was called Mary (nee Bourke) Meade.</div>
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<div>
Is
there a Catholic graveyard from this period on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy </b></a>which I could
contact to see if I could find her grave? I am planning a trip to
Shanghai next year.</div>
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Thank you in advance for your help.</div>
<br clear="all" />Many thanks,<br />
Susan H.<br />
Dublin, Ireland<br />
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-90753795317810058272015-06-23T18:30:00.000-07:002015-06-23T18:30:57.285-07:00Xinjie Church 50th Anniversary photo by James Carrington U.S. Amoy Consul 1894-2000<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ahoy from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Xiamen</a>), China!<br />
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I was excited to hear from Ben Smith, a descendant of James Carrington, U.S. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> Consul 1894-2000. Carrington took this photo in 1898 during the 50th anniversary of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen's</b></a> Xinjie Church, the oldest Protestant Church in China. Thank you for the photo, Ben!<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="50th Anniversary Xinjie Church China's Oldest Protestant Church 新街礼拜堂 厦门中国最早的教堂 1848年 " border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjALjxyUwJ-pbkfqjTE-qmpDsbHV9eXMNmY-WIaT-SOzqkaYXZtCiy2T-Hh2ZpScKp3hFoxJOjx18QD-S9Dau_moBKgW7lpR1lhZB-EihFq6pNlPi5Tcrdfhpa09LW057ik7qHZOOkmHhvL/s400/Xinjie50th+1898SM.jpg" title="50th Anniversary Xinjie Church Xiamen Amoy 1848 1898" width="400" /></a>The photo is about ten inches long and I can just barely read the faded handwriting at the bottom:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Amoy, China;--50th anniversary (1848-1898) of the first Christian church ever erected in China. Photo represents a half view of the decorated church. Chinese women occupy seats behind screen [unclear] corner."</span><br />
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Thank you for the photo, Ben! Gulangyu should received UNESCO World Heritage Site Status in 1917, and we hope to have the material we've accumulated displayed in an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> Mission exhibit.<br />
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<b>A note about <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Amoy</a> U.S. Consul's and Ben's "Uncle Jimmy" (Amoy Consul James Carrington):</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> Consul
at that time, Ben's "Uncle Jimmy" had quite an influence. In addition
to being Consul, the American consuls' also helped with social issues. An
American consul started the Tongwen Institute and the chairman of the board was
always a U.S. Consul. U.S. consul's were also the ones to fight the coolie
trade, and helped stop the U.S. opium trade, though the British continued it
for another 80 years. The Viceroy of China at that time said of the U.S.,
"I've heard much about 'Christian' nations, but this is the first time
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>U.S. Amoy Consul </b>James Carrington was
the daughter of Susan P. McDowell, who was the daughter of James McDowell, governor of Virginia. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> James McDowell was the daughter of Susanna Smith Preston,
who was one of the 15 children of General Francis Smith Preston (1765-1835). He
was a lawyer, General in the War of 1812, and a member of the Virginia State
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-17644857866011002312015-05-27T18:10:00.002-07:002015-05-29T01:33:43.260-07:00South Fukien: Missionary Poems: 1925-1951, William Angus, Amoy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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An interesting note today from the Author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937385558/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1937385558&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=ASDIMWUTPM5PCHQJ" target="_blank">"South Fukien: Missionary Poems: 1925-1951, William Angus". </a>I read some of the poems and they really brought to life the place and the people<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><b> </b>of Amoy (now <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a>), <span style="font-family: "Courier New";">of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>Fujian Province</b></a>.</span></span> I even recognized some of the notorious characters--a bandit chief--in one poem, though the name was changed. Insightful, and fun. Below are the author's note and Press Release.<br />
<b> </b><a href="http://amoymission.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-three-trees-poem-from-south-fukien.html" target="_blank"><b>Click Here for "The Three Trees</b></a>", William Angus' favorite poem.<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Dr. Bill, Xiamen University MBA Center<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> (since 1988); </span></span>Author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><i><b>Discover Xiamen</b></i></a> <span style="font-family: "Courier New";">&</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><i><b>Fujian Adventure</b></i></a>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Note from David Andrews, May 27, 2015</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">I have enjoyed
reading your <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/amoymission1.htm" target="_blank">site </a>while doing research for my book project, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937385558/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1937385558&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=ASDIMWUTPM5PCHQJ" target="_blank">South Fukien:Missionary Poems 1925-1951, by William Angus.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">William R. Angus,
Jr. was a Reformed Church missionary in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> and on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>Fukien</b></a> mainland in the years named, and after expulsion worked in the
Philippines. He wrote over 600 poems on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>Fukienese</b></a> people of his time,
60 of which are collected in a 2015 edition co-published by MerwinAsia
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">I edited the
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Angus of Lansing, MI, the poet's son, wrote the Preface.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">I am enclosing a
press release for the collection and two files of excerpts. I hope you
will find them interesting and lend us some aid in raising the book's profile
among readers, students, and perhaps missionaries. Some links to web
pages about the book are at the bottom of this message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">David Andrews<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Publication of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937385558/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1937385558&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=ASDIMWUTPM5PCHQJ" target="_blank"><b>South Fukien: Missionary
Poems 1925-1951</b></a></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937385558/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1937385558&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=ASDIMWUTPM5PCHQJ" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">, By WilliamAngus</span></b></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Edited with an Introduction by
David Andrews</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Preface by
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Portland, ME: MerwinAsia
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">China Missionary
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Lansing, MI,
April 1, 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Through four
decades as a Reformed Church missionary in China’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>Fukien </b></a>(today, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>Fujian</b></a>)
Province, William Angus produced more than 600 narrative poems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What emerged is pointedly not A Nice
Missionary’s Poetry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">In spring of 2015
MerwinAsia Publishers, in association with the University of Hawaii Press,
releases 60 of William Angus’s verses under the title <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>South Fukien:</b></a> Missionary
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Humane but hard-edged,
Angus’s verse depicts the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>Fukienese </b></a>through successive eras of trial: in
China’s struggle toward modern government; through civil wars between
Nationalist and Communist forces; under Japanese occupation in World War II;
and during the Communist takeover at the end of the 1940s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Written from
actual incidents, in the voices of the storytellers, the poems are as vital as
the Chinese people. Angus’s work combines historical reporting with folktale,
and a sharp edge of moral ambiguity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">David Angus, a
retired educator in Lansing, MI, has waited decades to see his father’s poetry
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">“My father
traveled long distances in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>Fukien’s</b></a> countryside—on foot, by boat, and by
ancient, rickety bus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knew peasants
and merchants, bandits and soldiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
heard their stories and he valued their experiences,” David reflects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“He knew they were together in some of the
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">During World War
II, Angus’s wife, Joyce and their three children—David Angus among them—were
interned by the Japanese before repatriation to America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1951 William and Joyce were forced, like
all missionaries, to leave China by the new Peoples’ Republic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">“When my father
died in 1984, he left behind a body of remarkable work which he edited and
revised several times,” says David.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“These poems represent his personal response to the Chinese he lived and
worked among.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>South Fukien</b></a>collection’s subtitle, Missionary Poems, offers a hope that his verse will
still bear witness to the effect of Western evangelism on the daily lives and
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>South Fukien </b></a>is
edited by independent scholar David Andrews, who provides a historical
Introduction and Glossary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David Angus
supplies a Foreword recalling missionary life in China. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The collection
was assembled and annotated from papers in the collections of the New Brunswick
Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, NJ, and the Joint Archives of Hope
College and Holland, MI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The poems were
an exciting and historically important discovery, too compelling to remain
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">William Angus’s
poems are dispatches from his time to ours, showing the Chinese as a people
much like us—hoping to adjust to a world of rapid change, seeking comfort in a
Western religion that offers faith, justice, and love. His accounts of
spiritual strength and moral failings present unique perspectives into a
people’s behavior and mores under crisis, temptation and change.</span></div>
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objectivity, sensitivity, compassion, and uncompromising directness, Angus does
not pretend,” notes Dr. Paul Vender Meer, Professor Emeritus at California
State University-Fresno.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Ann
Kuzdale, Associate Professor of History at Chicago State University, says,
“Angus is a keen witness to events that most readers know superficially.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>South Fukien</b></a> is a valuable addition to world
history and religious studies courses, and to transnational and Pacific Rim
history.</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/amoymission1.htm">The Amoy Mission Pages</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born in 1903
into a wealthy and distinguished family near Uckfield, Sussex, she grew up
mainly in Castle Hill House, Torrington, Devon. Her private tutor,
Francis James, was a flower painter and inspired her interest in art,
and after the death of her father in 1918 she went to Florence to study at
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Accompanied
by her mother, she returned to England as Fascism took hold in Italy, settling
in St Ives where her interest in book illustration developed into wood
engraving. At the 1924 Show Day in St Ives she was noticed for her 'very
effective' wood engraving entitled <i>The New Italy</i>, showing Mussolini
reviewing his troops. Having hoped to study under <a href="http://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/alfred-hartley" target="_blank" title="Alfred HARTLEY"><span style="color: #286abe; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alfred HARTLEY</span></a> - his health at this
time making it impossible - she attended the <a href="http://cornwallartists.org/node/13129" target="_blank"><span style="color: #286abe; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Walter SIMPSON</span></a> School
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Primarily
a wood engraver and author, she also exhibited illuminated work with fine
lettering and decorative wooden boxes. In 1925 she married Cyril Drummond le
Gros Clark in St Ives, and they travelled on postings to China and Sarawak. She
exhibited in the 1928 Summer Exhibition at <a href="http://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/nag" target="_blank" title="NAG"><span style="color: #286abe; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">NAG</span></a> under
her married name Le Gros Clark, and showed three works: <i>Rice Fields</i>, <i>The
Poet Chu Yuan </i>and <i>Schloss Tauffers: Tyrol</i>. Returning from
the Far East in 1936, she continued to travel extensively, devoting more time
to writing than art. Her husband was killed in a Japanese prisoner of war camp
in WWII. She later married John Keevil, the medical historian.</span></div>
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-30631076847450784982015-03-02T22:48:00.001-08:002015-03-02T22:48:43.576-08:00Rare, Original 1844 Amoy Watercolor for Sale!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7BxzPI2399__hd1ioS6xuzB0qAf-jG-RR7_mjo6a5jAfCeBZKPIBFhhVd6NBPqGXYYLCHNhVUYrDuf4mJvfEpNvJLjxEJ7ufTnpO4pdyRhY_V-lR1ozwkRVwHMJZ631cavM3UNPZ9jPR/s1600/amoy1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Original Amoy Watercolor White Stag Temple 1844" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7BxzPI2399__hd1ioS6xuzB0qAf-jG-RR7_mjo6a5jAfCeBZKPIBFhhVd6NBPqGXYYLCHNhVUYrDuf4mJvfEpNvJLjxEJ7ufTnpO4pdyRhY_V-lR1ozwkRVwHMJZ631cavM3UNPZ9jPR/s1600/amoy1.jpg" height="165" title="Original 1844 Amoy Watercolor" width="200" /></a>Ahoy from old <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a>! I received an email today about a rare Amoy (present-day <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a>) original watercolor of the White Stag Temple (which is still standing) for sale by Marani Fine Art, Australia. With their permission, I repost it below; you may email Mr. Bezuijen at <a href="mailto:maranifineart@bigpond.com">maranifineart@bigpond.com</a> for further details. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bill-Brown/e/B004HD2T82/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1" target="_blank">Dr. Bill</a><br /><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQunbn70Tw4PdESYLNjhrf0MRquyJI9n-ayH5VrUtA6mKAbTuTaqJ-7vPjzB35paFXMPnJx2kqTVJahmkq80sZVsfL7YA85EhvUtv1oXMxSIzswDiXSEVRoKXf5TpTMOItX1VMr8OkkNFi/s1600/amoy4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Original Amoy watercolor 1844 China photo painting" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQunbn70Tw4PdESYLNjhrf0MRquyJI9n-ayH5VrUtA6mKAbTuTaqJ-7vPjzB35paFXMPnJx2kqTVJahmkq80sZVsfL7YA85EhvUtv1oXMxSIzswDiXSEVRoKXf5TpTMOItX1VMr8OkkNFi/s1600/amoy4.jpg" height="133" title="" width="200" /></a>Tue, Mar 3, 2015, Robert H. Bezuijen wrote:<br /> Dear Dr Brown,<br /> When researching an early <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> watercolour I came across your fascinating amoymagic website and read your family history with much interest. From a 'nomadic lifestyle' point of view our lives have not been dissimilar, in that I lived and worked with shipping groups in Africa and Asia for thirty years, including ten happy years in Hong Kong during the 70s/80s, and after my last posting for the P&O Group in Vietnam from 1993-96 I decided to change course, hopped off the corporate bandwagon and, having always been interested in and collected art throughout my stay in Asia, I decided to deal fulltime in Asian art, with particular focus on historical and topographical images (paintings/photographs/manuscripts). In this respect I wondered whether the following could be of interest to you:<br /> <br /> I have in my collection a rare, early watercolour of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Amoy</a>, titled "Sketch of part of the grounds of the White Stag, a large Joss House in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Amoy</a>". Please see images and detailed description attached.<br /> <br /> It is signed indistinctly on verso in a western hand and dated December 1844, barely two years after the signing of the Treaty of Nanking in August 1842, and only a year after <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> was officially opened to foreign trade in November 1843. From my research {as attached}, this is one of the earliest known images of the topography of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a>, over 170 years ago, also pre-dating any photograph of the area, the earliest of which dates to 1849.<br /> <br /> Regarding the artist, I have not been able to decipher/identify the signature, though not for the lack of trying. Eg. the London Missionary Society established its <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Amoymission1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Amoy Mission</b></a> in July 1844, and its first missionaries were Rev.J.Stronach and William Young. The American Episcopal Church established a mission in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Amoy</a> in 1842, and its missionaries in 1844 were Rev.J.C.Hepburn and J.Lloyd. None of the other names match the signature either, such as Jardine's Agent in Amoy in 1844 was a Captain Forbes, and the first British Consul was Captain Henry Gribble. Also, in July 1844 a severe fever broke out at <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu Islet,</b></a> from which few of the foreign residents escaped. So the artist might have been a visiting trader/ships crew or other company representative.<br /> <br /> I look forward to hearing from you whether this is of interest. The price is A$1250 (approx. US$975/CNY6100). Packing/postage to be advised separately, also depending on whether sent framed or unframed, and whether to China or the US.<br /> <br /> Kind regards,<br /> <br /> Robert H. Bezuijen<br /> Marani Fine Art<br /> 6 Dunn Avenue<br /> Ferny Creek<br /> Victoria 3786<br /> Australia<br /> Tel: 61-3-9755 2470<br /> Mob: 61-408-391164<br /> Email: <a href="mailto:maranifineart@bigpond.com">maranifineart@bigpond.com</a><br />
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<b>Mr. Bezuijen's info on the White Stag Temple.</b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Artist Unknown, c.1844</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Chinese figures by a bridge and banyan tree within a
hilly and rocky landscape,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the following pen inscription on verso:’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">‘<i>Sketch of part of the grounds of the White Stag</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>a large Joss
House in Amoy</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>indistinctly
signed and dated <i>December 1844,</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with further
inscription <i>A piece of rock is shaped somewhat</i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>like a (white)
stag …. ….</span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">24.3 x 33.9 cm (9.6 x 13.4 in) – image size</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">35.8 x 43.1 cm (14.1 x 17.0 in) – frame size</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Framed under glass in contemporary maple frame</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Amoy</span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The coastal city of Amoy (Xiamen)
in Fujian Province, southern China, was the
focus of trade with the West for many years. The Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch
traded here intermittently in the 16<sup>th</sup> and 17<sup>th</sup>
centuries, and the East India Company established a base here in 1676. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The strategic significance of Amoy
also led to its involvement in several wars and campaigns. During the First
Opium War [1839-42] between Britain
and China
the British captured the city in the Battle of Amoy on 26 August 1841.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amoy became one of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>five treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanking signed between British
and Chinese officials on 29
August 1842 following China’s loss in the First Opium
War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The treaty was ratified by Queen
Victoria and the Daoguang Emperor nine months later, in May 1843, and in
November 1843 Amoy was officially opened to
foreign trade.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">European settlements were concentrated on the islet of
Gulangyu off the main island
of Amoy, and between 1842
and 1845 merchants, officials, consuls and missionaries from some thirteen
countries established trading houses, consulates, churches and hospitals. A
provisional British Consul by the name of H.Gribble was appointed in November
1843, replaced in November 1844 by Sir Rutherford Alcock as the first official
British Consul. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amoy especially became
an early entry point for Protestant missions in China.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">White Stag Hill – White Stag Temple {Joss-House}</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Several early travel accounts of Amoy
mention the distinctive rocky landscape and features of <i>White Stag Hill. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, George Smith in his ‘Narrative of
an Exploratory Visit etc’ [1847, refer Bibliography] made the following
observation:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">‘<i>Among the temples there are some remarkable
buildings. The collection of temples situated on the hill commonly called the
“White Stag Hill”deserves particular mention. They consist of a cluster of
buildings perched on overhanging rocks, and present, from the summit, a most
romantic view of the city and its busy population, at the distance of a mile’.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And Henry Charles Sirr in his ‘China and the
Chinese’ [1849, refer Bibliography] records:</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">‘The heathen temples or joss-houses at Amoy are
curious and handsome structures, more especially about a mile from the city,
upon White Stag Hill; several of these heathen places of worship are built on a
most picturesque spot, at the summit of rocks, and appear to be overhanging the
city; groves of banyan trees surround the temples, under whose luxuriant
umbrageous foliage the priests idle away the greater part of the day’.</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">John Scarth in his ‘Twelve years in China’ [1860, refer
Bibliography] also mentions, among others:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">‘<i>After a hurried sketch of part of the Mam-poo-to
temple, we mount again and steer for</i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the Telegraph Hill and the White Stag temple, in
search of views’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And
further:</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The temple of the White Stag (the name is derived from
a small stone figure of such an </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">animal in a cave hard by) is approached by a high
flight of stone steps. From the temple<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>there is a fine view of Amoy. A
banyan-tree shades the White Stag temple. It is a wonder</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">how it grows in such a rugged spot.’</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">On page 15 of his book there is an illustration titled
‘Amoy, from White Stag Temple, Fukien’.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The ‘China Review’ (19thc.,n.d.) also describes the
topography of Amoy as illustrated in this early
watercolour: <i>‘The island
of Amoy is physically
remarkable for the huge granite boulders which lie scattered about: boulders of
massive proportions, poised in the most fantastic manner. In the valley beneath
the White Stag Grotto is the Hong-tong-chioh (Wind-moved Rock), a block of
stone upwards of 40 feet in length, and not much less in girth, commonly known
as the Rocking Stones’.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And further: ‘<i>Amoy</i><i>
teems with proofs of the widespread influence of Buddhism. Nestled amongst the
rocks, and situated in those picturesque positions which the votaries of this
faith seem to select with an inborn instinct, are numerous Buddhist temples and
shrines, erected in honor of various popular deities. The sites upon which many
of these temples stand have been sacred resorts as far back as the Ming
Dynasty, AD 1368-1644.</i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The proximity of so popular a temple as the last named
[Ho Khe Giam or Tiger Stream Temple] is one cause of the usually deserted
appearance of the Pek-lok-tong (White Stag Grotto), and except on certain
festival days the services of one resident shaven monk are more than enough to
perform the various duties attaching to the guardianship of the temple, and the
offices of the priesthood’.</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Comments</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">G.H.R.Tillotson observes in his ‘Fan Kwae
Pictures’[refer Bibliography] “..like the more usual views of Shanghai, views of the treaty port of Amoy suffer from standardization, <i>though they are much
scarcer because Amoy was taken by the Tai Ping rebels in 1853.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In fact only three paintings of Amoy
of the 1840s have sofar been published, namely:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> The Parade Ground in Xiamen, c.1844, Collection HSBC, Hong Kong</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Amoy: The
Parade Ground, c.1845, Collection Sze Yuan Tang, Hong Kong</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Trading Junk at Xiamen, c.1840s, Collection HKMA, Hong Kong</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This watercolour, dated December 1844, is therefore
one of the earliest known images of Amoy
following the conclusion of the Treaty of Nanking in August 1842.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also pre-dates any photograph of Amoy, the
earliest of which dates to 1849, attributed to a Chinese photographer Lin Zhen
{see Bennett, Terry, <i>History of Photography in China 1842-1860, </i>London,
2009, p.201}.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Auguste Borget (1808-77), before visiting Canton and Macau, joined the French frigate <i>Psyche</i> for a
voyage along the Kwangtung and Fukien coast, travelling up to Amoy.
And in a letter written on board the <i>Psyche</i> on August 9, 1838 he said: “I am then at
last in China.
I have taken possesion of the Celestial Empire!”
.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Whilst this drawing is not by Borget, it is
nevertheless interesting to note a similarity in the treatment of the tree,
when comparing it to Borget’s pencil sketches of eg. ‘Burial Scene, China’,
‘Village Scene, China’, and ‘Old temple near the Macau border’, as illustrated in Hutcheon’s ‘Souvenirs of
Auguste Borget’ [refer Bibliography].</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bibliography</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Smith, George, <i>A Narrative of an
Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of </i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>China, and to
the Islands of Hong Kong
and Chusan, in Behalf of the Church </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Missionary
Society in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846, </span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">London</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, 1847, chapters 25-34 </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Amoy] </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Sirr, Henry Charles, <i>China</i><i>
and the Chinese: their religion, character, customs, and</i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>manufacturers,
</span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Volume 1, London,
1849, p.141</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Pitcher, Philip Wilson, <i>In and about Amoy: some historical and other facts connected</i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with one of
the first open ports in China,
</span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Shanghai</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, 1912,
p.294</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Scarth, John W., <i>Twelve years in China; the
people, the rebels, and the mandarins,</i> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edinburgh,
1860, chapter IV, and illustration on p.15 <i>‘Amoy,
from White Stag Temple,</i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fukien’</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Goodrich, Joseph King, <i>The Coming China, </i>Chicago, 1911,
illustration of the collection</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of temples
situated on the hill commonly called the <i>White Stag Hill </i>[Amoy]</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> The China Review, <i>Amoy- Physical
Features, Monuments, Temples,
&c.,</i> 19thc., n.d., </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pp. 690-693</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Hong
Kong Museum
of Art, <i>Gateways to China
– Trading Ports of the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Centuries, </span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hong Kong</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, 1987, pp. 14-15, 89-91</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Tillotson, G.H.R., <i>Fan Kwae Pictures, </i>London, 1987, pp.86-87,
89 (ill.101)</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Hutcheon, Robin, <i>Souvenirs of Auguste
Borget, </i>Hong Kong, 1979, p.41</span></div>
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<i>China</i><i>
Illustrated – Western Views of the Middle Kingdom, </i>Singapore, </span></div>
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1996, p.36, ill.25</span></div>
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-42286102791742635152015-02-11T16:59:00.001-08:002015-02-11T16:59:20.779-08:00Charles Jung Kear of Amoy (update)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For those who read the previous post on Charles Jung Kear<b> of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Amoy</a>,</b> here is another letter from the descendant seeking to learn more about him. Any info would be greatly appreciated! <br />
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Bill, it was so good to received you email. Many thanks.<br />
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As we are going away for a few days, i actually posted the information
to you and the address I mailed it to : Mr Bill Brown, Box 1288, X<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/XMU.htm" target="_blank"><b>iamen University</b></a>, Xiamen <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b>Fujian</b></a> China 361005. So fingers crossed that you
will receive the A4 size padded bag when you get back from your trip. I
mailed postcards to my family from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a> and happy to report all
arrived approximately 3/4 weeks later.<br />
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It was difficult to decide what I should send. I went through numerous
paperwork and found anything that I thought would/may help the Chinese
end. Im not sure how many old Churches still stand in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a> but we
did think that would be a start (hence why we were outside the old
Presbyterian Church). Luck was with us that day. The other strong clue
was my gran telling my mother that her father could speak "Scotch and
Chinese". Did Charles attend a Missionary school? Obviously he was
well educated for someone of that period as he worked for a time as a
court interpreter acting for the Chinese Miners one would assume in the
Hill End/Bathurst region was full of Chinese mining for gold. He may
have been a full blood Chinese and adopted the name "Kear" on arrival in
Australia. Or his father could have been Scottish, a missionary or a
naval man. We are betting on the missionary part although cousin Helen
has done research on line and have not found any Kears coming to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank">Amoy</a>.
Old residents in Mudgee insiste<b>d </b>that Charles was a "full blood" and we
were told that he and his sons dressed in traditional clothing and had
pigtails. And given the strong chinese features of my gran Hannah Vashti
and other relatives, it seems that could be so.<br />
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All of Charles's children had biblical names. (see letter from David Kear, NZ - check out on Google his background)<br />
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However, the Kears come from the Forest of Dean in the UK, and have
resided there for hundreds of years - all well documented. It seems
puzzling that Charles's wife Jean Shergold (Shurgold) came from
Wilshire, very close to the Forest of Dean. David Kear in New Zealand
has made a lifetime search of the Kears and has made a comprehensive and
organised file of the family. He generously has shared it with us.
You will see his notes to me, so logical and organised. David is now 92
and it appears no longer is using a computer when he wrote to me late
last year. His son in Melbourne is now taking up the Kear research. I
have yet to contact him.<br />
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Whist in Xiamen, we stayed at the Swiss International Hotel opposite the
Island and actually walked past the University. So close.<br />
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Obviously Kear/Chinese research has been picked up by us all and put
aside given personal circumstances and it was really when I retired some
9 years ago that I had a bit more time and though I should get a move
on. Both MK and HM my cousins have done the same
whilst a lot younger .<br />
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So fingers crossed that there are some researchers who may help us further.<br />
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We are happy to reimburse copying costs/postage where/as needed.<br />
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Longing for more news.<br />
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Many, many thanks<br />
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-90772581643537199112015-02-11T05:14:00.001-08:002015-02-11T05:27:46.242-08:00Seeking Charles Jung Kear of Amoy (19th Century)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Below is the latest letter from an Australian lady searching for info on her great grandfather, Charles Jung Kear, born in Amoy. If you have any info, please let me know and I can have her contact you!<br />
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Jan. 9, 2015<br />
Dear Bill, <br />
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I have just finished photocopying a lot of material that you might
find fun to read on my long search for information on my great
grandfather, Charles Jung Kear born in Amoy. If nothing else, if you
enjoy reading puzzles, it will give you something to think about. Would you please send me your mailing address so I can post?</div>
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This
last trip to China seemed to be difficult. Perhaps because I am now 74
and was traveling with energetic daughter J and partner S. Oh,
and fit husband M.! We did a huge amount of walking. We flew into
Shanghai where we have been a few times and always enjoy, then 8 hrs
rail to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a>, followed by a flight to HK and home. I now wish we had
spent a week in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a>, particularly after the amazing luck of bumping
into <b>A.F. </b>outside the Presbyterian Church. How lucky was that and
that she spoke English! We had been to the Museum and no one could
speak English and we had just about given up on the whole idea. I was
very despondent. And for A. to tell me that she knew you. I had read
all of your blogs and emailed you previously but assumed you were very
busy. (I worked at M. University for some 30 odd years on and
off). What a pity we could not have met.</div>
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I was
overwhelmed when we got to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a>. I had read about the village of
600,000 people but found a high rise city of perhaps 3 million? I wanted
a village with colonial houses and streets that I could meander around.
Yes, I know. Dreaming. </div>
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We first visited
China in 1983 - Beijing and have been back perhaps 25 times and to
different regions. Even as a kid I was fascinated with everything
oriental without knowing anything about my grandmother's parents.
Whilst gran lived with us for some years, she never ever spoke of her
parents and my mother told me that gran had burnt her birth certificate
at some stage. Being Chinese was not highly thought of in Australia in
those days. My own search such as it was, was when I was about 18 years
old and I went to visit Mudgee, NSW (west of Sydney) where my great
grandparents lived to search records. In those days it was all manual
and not well kept.</div>
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It has been only over the
last few years when I put an add in the Sydney Morning Herald looking
for family connections that I met <b>HM</b> and M Kear - both
younger than me - 2nd cousins, who have also been researching. So now
we are in touch and every now and again, try researching another angle.</div>
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The puzzle is only <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a> that we cannot "crack".</div>
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It would be wonderful if we could find some relatives/information/<wbr></wbr>whatever. I would be back to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a> in a flash!</div>
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Cheers and many thanks</div>
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Sincerely</div>
JC, Australia<br />
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-29635073486307344792014-11-25T16:20:00.001-08:002014-11-25T16:20:12.026-08:00John MacGowan of Amoy -- and Hayley Mills?!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ahoy from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a>!<br />
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I was happy to hear again from the descendants of John MacGowan, the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET" target="_blank"><b>Amoy</b></a> missionary who wrote so many books a century ago, (I have all of them). But there is almost nothing about his own life, and I have only a couple photos of him, so it is fun to learn a bit more about him--and a surprise to learn that one of his descendants is Hayley Mills (I had a crush on her when I was too young to even know what a crush was!). I was also surprised to learn that Hayley's ancestors had been in Siam in the 1830s (she was in the musical "Anna and the King of Siam").<br />
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Below is the second email (which I take the liberty of posting, since it does not have their names).<br />
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John MacGowan's descendent is Hayley Mills, the actress. In 1990's
she toured in the musical "The King & I" based on the book "Anna
and the King of Siam." I wondered if she knew that her family had been
in Siam in the 1830's: decades before Anna got there. Hayley Mills'
family might have info about MacGowan. We have a little info about the
time he married Jennie Peet. <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I'm not at home now so I can't give you all the names but I'll fill it in when I get back in about 2 weeks. </span></div>
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Lyman Burt Peet married _____ Sherrill (first wife who died in China) </div>
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Their daughter Jennie Peet (born in Siam) married John MacGowan</div>
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Their daughter ______married____ Bell</div>
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Their daughter Mary Hayley Bell married John Mills.</div>
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Their daughter is Hayley Mills.</div>
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Do MaGowan's books have photos?</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> We are descended from Peet's second wife Hannah Louisa Plimpton. She later married Rev. Charles Hartwell.</span></div>
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We have photos of chapels and lists of villages Rev Peet served as
well as and drawings and banners. Would you like me to email you
copies? We have shoes for bound feet, etc...</div>
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-37652112107259536722014-11-23T06:05:00.002-08:002014-11-23T06:05:46.299-08:00Lyman Burton Peet and John Macgowan, Amoy and Foochow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today I received the intriguing but unsigned email below (at the bottom of this post). I hope to hear more from them. It has been so hard obtaining information, photos, etc. for the proposed Amoy Mission museum we hope to open.<br />
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<b>Unsigned Email Received Today</b><br />
My family was in Amoy / Pagoda Anchorage from 1847 till 1925. Three
generations. Lyman Burt Peet and family went to China from Siam. His son
Lyman Plimpton Peet became a missionary. His daughter Jennie married
British missionary Rev Macgowan. His daughter Ellen Louisa married Rev
George Henry Hubbard. Nellie was born there and died there in 1925. Her
children were born in Foochow. My grandmother was her youngest. We have
some photos and drawings.</div>
Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-11685275210492180492014-04-02T08:50:00.003-07:002014-04-21T08:34:16.586-07:00Fujian Adventure eBook $1.99 promotion on Amazon! 魅力福建<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><b>Enjoy Amoy! </b></i><br />
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<i><b><a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Drbill/DrBillBio.htm" target="_blank">Dr. Bill</a></b></i><b> </b><br />
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<b>Amazon description of</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20" target="_blank"><b><i>Fujian Adventure</i></b></a>.<br />
Columbus' goal was not a New World but a shortcut to India and
to Marco Polo’s fabled Zayton in Fujian, China. Columbus never made it to
Zayton, but you can.<br />
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Over 500 pages and almost 700 photos, many by award-winning Chinese
photographers, bring to life the people and places of Fujian (Fukien), the
cradle of Chinese seafaring (200 B.C.), start of the Maritime Silk Route, port
of departure for Marco Polo and ibn Battuta, and ancestral home of most
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Meet Admiral Zhenghe, the "real" Sinbad; the
ancient Southern Shaolin Kung Fu Temple’s youthful abbot; the Hui'an maidens
who cover their heads, bare their bellies, and only sleep with their husbands 3
nights a year; the firewalkers who dance across the flames bearing heavy idols;
melancholy Miss Mo who became the sea goddess Mazu; Zayton’s famous marionette
makers; the Anxi farmers who produced the tea tossed overboard during the
Boston Tea Party. Visit China’s first Protestant church and the planet’s last
Manichean temple. Explore Gulangyu, the Roaring 20s’ “richest square mile on
earth,” which even today has over 1,000 “Amoy Deco” mansions. Discover the
secret of Hakka roundhouses that Nixon and the CIA thought were missile silos,
and then visit the nearby Amoy tiger preserve. Enjoy scenic Sanming, with
China's 4th largest gem beds, China’s largest sleeping Buddha, Ming Dynasty
villages, enchanting caverns and underground lakes. Marvel at Wuyi Mountain’s
2,000-year-old Min Palace, and the Eden-like biological diversity that drew
French naturalists in the 1700s to study the rare plants, king cobras and 33
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And of course there’s the Fujian food. Moliere said "Man should eat to
live, not eat to live," but Dr. Bill says, "Moliere never ate Chinese
food—especially Fujian food.” </div>
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Locals say Fujian is “8 parts mountain, 1 part water, 1 part field”. This
torturous terrain not only gave rise to an innovative and tough people but also
to more local dialects and greater cultural diversity—including cuisines—than
any other province. Every hill, valley and river has a story behind it, and Dr.
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<b>Author Bill Brown</b>, Prof. of Organizational Behavior and Business Strategy at
School of Management, Xiamen University, was Fujian's first foreign permanent
resident and has driven over 200,000 km. around China,even through the Gobi Desert and Tibet,<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">幸福福建</span>),but still considers
Fujian the most fascinating province for foreigners. In addition to textbooks
such as Art of Business Warfare (Beijing University Press), he has written ten
books about Fujian. He has also written and hosted several TV documentaries,
including a 62-episode mini-series, "Fujian in a Foreigner's Eyes".
In addition to teaching MBA, he hosts the weekly "Xingfu Fujian"《幸福福建》。<br />
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-22637739795082248302014-01-09T01:28:00.000-08:002014-01-09T01:28:38.024-08:00Researching Nicholas Fitzmaurice British Consul General, Kulangsu / Gulangyu 1937 - 1941<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Below is a fascinating email received today from Ms. Mary T. If anyone has info on Nicholas Fitzmaurice, plesae share it (it would be fun to see the old photos she alludes to).<br />
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I plan to visit Gulangyu in March this year with my
daughter. The Consulate General Residence was my first
home. I was born in Peking in 1937, Nicholas Fitzmaurice’s
daughter. My husband and I toured China in 1994 and finished our
travels on Gulangyu where, with the help of the Museum Curator and a charming
girl with some English from a small hotel, we eventually located the sad-looking
house – almost unrecognisable from the childhood photographs I had taken with
me. It was smothered with 50+ years of sub-tropical jungle, very
decrepit with crumbling walls and ceilings and damaged light fittings
etc. I was just thrilled it was still there and had survived the
Japanese, who interred my father with Murray MacLehose, his ‘No. 2” at the
time and who, in the 1970’s, was one of Hong Kong’s most successful
Governors. Also I wondered if Mao’s Red Guards had sacked
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My husband took masses of photographs of the place and when home I sent
copies of 1941 and 1994 to the curator and Hua Chung Wha (?sp) as a
thank-you for their help. I didn’t expect any response from them, so
imagine my delight and surprise when I opened my daily copy of The Times to see
a photograph of the Consulate! It was being “opened” after
restoration by the Chinese Government and looked almost identical to the
photographs I had sent. It was a huge thrill for me and now an
opportunity has arisen which will enable me to return there. P &
O have a cruise from Sydney to Hong Kong in February and amongst other
ports they are stopping for a day in Xiamen with an excursion to
Gulangyu. My daughter lives in Australia and she is also
very excited about the memories she has heard being brought to life.
I have a feeling that in the last 20 years, Gulangyu is very much more developed
than when I was last there, but so is everywhere else!</div>
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My father knew the Japanese were going to invade Kulangsu as they were
firing on the beaches and as it was almost impossible to get passage to Britain
then, we were evacuated to Dunedin where some of my father’s cousins
lived. It was not until 1943 he joined us there and we returned to
England via the Panama Canal and across the Atlantic without a
convoy! Great excitement for my brother and me, living in
life-jackets and lifeboat drill every day. </div>
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Are you able to advise me what the Consulate is now being used for? I
found a website which said that it is a coin museum but has not been updated
since 2007 and I wonder whether that is still the case. I am not
clever enough to identify it on any map. I should be grateful if you
would have time to help me with this. I leave for Australia on ...</div>
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Best wishes,</div>
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Mary Txxxx (nee Fitzmaurice)</div>
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<b>Fun Anecdote about the Consulate</b>: it was built on a bluff atop Zhangzhou Road in Tianwei--the best fengshui on the islet. Chinese were furious but could do nothing. It was originally two floors, but after a typhoon blew off the upper floor, the British declined to rebuilt it, and it is one story to this day. The Chinese took the typhoon as evidence of God's judgement on the invaders, and chuckle about it to this day.</div>
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<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Drbill/DrBillBio.htm">Bill Brown</a>
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<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/XMU.htm">Xiamen University</a>
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<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/main.htm">www.amoymagic.com</a></div>
Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-90895603740098565252013-10-21T01:22:00.002-07:002013-10-21T01:23:13.223-07:00Huang Rongyuan Mansion Gulangyu 32 Fujian Rd<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Many Chinese & foreigners query about ancestors in old <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/amoywhy.htm" target="_blank"><b>Amoy </b></a>(former name of <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/main.htm" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen</b></a>). Today, a lady from WLRN Public Radio & Television, Miami, Florida, inquired about the house at #32 Fujian Rd. (she actually wrote #3 Lujiao Rd., but the photo was of Huang Rongyuan Mansion at #32 Fujian Rd). Since others have also inquired about this estate, which is right beside the Spanish Gothic Catholic Church and former Japanese consulate, police station and jail, I am posting my reply online. This description is from my book <b><i>Discover Gulangyu!</i> 魅力鼓浪屿, <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/XMU.htm" target="_blank">Xiamen University Press</a></b> (I have 10 books now on Xiamen and Fujian Province, and hope to get them converted soon to e-Book format). <i><b>Enjoy Amoy! </b></i>Dr. Bill<br />
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<b>#32 Fujian Rd Huang Rongyuan Mansion (黄荣远堂),</b> circa 1920, is directly opposite Sea and Sky Palace. The villa reminds me of antebellum mansions in the Deep South—though no Southerner ever had a garden like this, with its towering palms, shimmering pool, and Chinese pavilion and rockery to the left, from which you can snap a photo of the Spanish Gothic Catholic Church on the other side of the wall.<br />
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Huang Rongyuan Villa was designed by a Filipino architect and built in 1920 by Shi Guangchong, a Philippine overseas Chinese whose ancestral home was Jinjiang, and who was related to one of Gulangyu’s most famous residents. His nephew’s wife was the first daughter of Lin Erjia (林尔嘉), creator of Shuzhuang Garden (菽庄花园).<br />
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While Gulangyu was a heavenly place to visit, by the 1930s the Japanese were making it a hell of a place to live in, and in 1937 Mr. Shi hightailed it back to the relatively safety of the Philippines. The villa was taken over by Mr. Huang Zhongxun, who then gave it to his younger brother, Huang Zhongping. He renamed the place Huang Rongyuan Villa, after the real estate company founded by Huang Wenhua (a Nan’an native who made a fortune in developing wilderness in Vietnam), and his son (the same fellow who walled in Sunlight Rock and made it his private garden; read more in the Yongchun Rd. chapter).<br />
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Huang Rongyuan Villa is pretty much a Western-style dwelling, with its “Southern mansion” two-story curved front porch and Ionic columns. But few Western homes boast as many styles of windows on one front, and the upper floor, with its dozen or more columns, looks like it was added as an afterthought. Still, I appreciate the imagination that went into its design and construction, and find it astonishing that such a magnificent building was later used as the Deer Reef Kindergarten.<br />
The Spanish Catholic Church (#34 Lujiao Rd.) is on the other side of the garden wall, just across from the former Japanese consulate.<br />
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<b>福建路32号:黄荣远堂</b> 大约建于1920年,就在海天堂构的正对面。这座别墅让我想起美国南北战争前南方的住宅——尽管那些南方人都没有这样的花园,园子里是参天的棕榈树,波光粼粼的池面,左边是中式的亭子和假山,在假山上还能抓拍到围墙另一侧的西班牙哥特式天主教堂。<br />
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黄荣远堂由菲律宾建筑师设计,菲律宾华侨施光从于1920年建造,施祖籍晋江,他和鼓浪屿的名人菽庄花园的主人林尔嘉还有一些渊源(林的长女为施的侄媳)。<br />
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鼓浪屿曾经是个天堂般的旅游胜地,但是在上世纪30年代日本人却把这里变成了人间地狱。1937年,施先生匆忙逃离了鼓浪屿回到相对安全的菲律宾。这座别墅转入黄仲训名下,后来又转给其弟黄仲评。黄仲评将别墅改名为“黄荣远堂”,黄荣远堂是黄文华(南安人,在越南开发荒地致富)和其子(就是那个将日光岩圈为私家花园的家伙,在永春路章节你可以知道更多)创办的房地产公司。<br />
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黄荣远堂是一幢以西洋风格为主的建筑,有“南方大宅”的两层拱券和爱奥尼克式的柱子,但很少西式房子在前壁会有这么多各式各样的窗棂,二楼有十几根廊柱,看上去像是后来才添加上去的。不过我仍然颇为欣赏这座房子富有想像力的设计和结构,让我颇为惊讶的是,这座壮观的楼房后来成了鹿礁幼儿园。<br />
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西班牙天主教堂(鹿礁路34号)就位于黄荣远堂院子围墙的另一侧,在日本领事馆的正对面。<br />
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<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Drbill/DrBillBio.htm">Bill Brown</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/XMU.htm">Xiamen University</a>
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-2060457235543331062013-03-24T19:13:00.001-07:002013-03-24T19:13:03.137-07:00Southern Shaolin Temple Fujian<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I receive many emails from people inquiring about the <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Kungfu.htm" target="_blank"><b>Southern Shaolin Kung FuT</b></a>emple in <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Fujiantravel.htm" target="_blank"><b>Fujian. </b></a> There are two--one in <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Kungfu.htm" target="_blank"><b>Quanzhou </b></a>and one in <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/putian.htm" target="_blank"><b>Putian,</b></a> and both claim to be the origin of Southern Shaolin Kung Fu, though neither can prove it.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Kungfu/kungfu2sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Southern Shaolin Kung Fu Temple Quanzhou Zayton Fujian Fukien Amoy" border="0" height="160" src="http://www.amoymagic.com/Kungfu/kungfu2sm.jpg" title="" width="200" /></a>Below is an inquiry from a man, David M., in Singapore. If you have helpful information, please post it or email me and I'll pass it on. Enjoy Amoy! Dr. Bill<br />
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Dear Bill,<br />
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Greetings from Singapore. I'm currently researching the life of my kung
fu teacher's master, Chee Kim Thong (徐金棟; 1918-2001) and was wondering
whether your knowledge of <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Amoymagic.htm" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen </b></a>would cast light on a murky period in
the master's life.<br />
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Master Chee was born in Putian. As a young man he joined a guerrilla
faction called the Big Knife Army. In this period - the late 1930s - he
learned a soft Shaolin art called Luohan Ruyiquan from a Buddhist: a
former abbot who lived in seclusion in a cave by a temple. I have heard
this temple called Lam Phor Thor, and the abbot named variously as Yit
Sim and Yik Cha'an Sze. I am unsure whether the correct temple is in
<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Amoymagic.htm" target="_blank"><b>Xiamen </b></a>or <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/putian.htm" target="_blank"><i>Putian</i></a>. The place names, and the name of the abbot, are
phonetic transcriptions of Hokkien and do not appear to correspond with
any information I can find online, and alas I'm unsure how the Hokkien
pronunciations might correspond to <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/madmandarin.htm" target="_blank"><b>Mandarin. </b></a>I lack Chinese characters
for these names. <br />
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If any of the names I mention suggest anything to you, I would be very
grateful for your thoughts. But if not, or if you don't have time for
this query at present, don't worry. I'll continue investigating the
matter any way I can.<br />
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Best wishes,<br />
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Chris M.<br />
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Unfortunately the facts of Master Chee's life are
already difficult to tease out; my efforts are plagued by a mixture of
legend and distortion, and a sheer lack of the pertinent information
among his close students. Frankly I don't know how to clarify some of
the questions I have about Master Chee's early life, and no-one outside
of Master's Chee's circle appears even to have heard of Luohan Ruyiquan.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Drbill/DrBillBio.htm">Bill Brown</a>
<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/XMU.htm">Xiamen University</a>
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Amoy Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09073267687602295221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050126098380856561.post-44201646238556089672013-02-18T17:27:00.002-08:002013-02-18T17:29:11.657-08:00Trinity Church Choir Gulangyu July 10 1949<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I received from Xiamen government this morning the proposal for a new museum on <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu</b></a>, which will display old photos, documents, etc.--and at the same time I received from Mr. Ken Lin, in New York, a photo of <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/discovergulangyu1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gulangyu</b></a>'s Trinity Church Choir, taken July 10, 1949. Great timing!<br />
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Trinity church was considered at one time China's most beautiful Protestant Church, and was named Trinity not just because of the "Holy Trinity" but also because three denominations cooperated in building it. <br />
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Mr. Ken Lin wrote, "My relative Dr. Yu Tang Lin held wedding in Union Church [XM Govt. spent over 2 million rebuilding this in 2010] that you mentioned below before leaving China. His elder sister was my Mom's godmother and used to live on the 3rd floor of my house in Kulangsu."<br />
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Xiamen, by the way, now has over <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/XN/xmchurches.htm" target="_blank"><b>40 registered churches</b></a>. <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/XN/xmchurches.htm" target="_blank"><b>Click Here</b></a> for info about them, or Click Here for info about <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/"><b><span id="goog_1096629493"></span>Fujian Churches and Christian activities.</b></a><span id="goog_1096629494"></span><br />
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Miss Chen, of Xiamen's <a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/XN/nissi.htm" target="_blank"><b>Jehovah Nissi Christian Bookstore</b></a>, will soon publish a book about Xiamen church history. <br />
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<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/Drbill/DrBillBio.htm">Bill Brown</a>
<a href="http://www.amoymagic.com/XMU.htm">Xiamen University</a>
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