Citations:Shang-hae

English citations of Shang-hae

• 1834, Charles Gutzlaff, Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China, in 1831, 1832, & 1833, with Notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands‎^[1], London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, page 205:

  We narrowly escaped running ashore near the island of Nan-jih, which belongs to Footeen district. Several junks had anchored in this harbour, some of which we visited, and were advised to go to Shang-hae in Keang-nan, where we might find a ready market for our cargo.

• 1843, William Darby, “Chang-hai”, in Darby's Universal Geographical Dictionary‎^[2], 3rd edition, Washington, D.C.: Gales and Seaton, →OCLC, page 207, column 2:

  Chang-hai, town of China, in the province of Kiang-nan. In this town, and the villages dependent on it, are more than 200,000 weavers of common cotton cloth. This city is situated on the south or right side of the Blue river, near its mouth, N. lat. 33 30, long. 12 121 E. of London. By English writers, it is now named Shang-hae, and described as an immense mart of foreign and domestic trade. It is one of those laid open to foreign commerce by a recent treaty between China and Great Britain. Distant about 60 ms. below Nankin.

• 1844, John Ochterlony, The Chinese War: An Account of All the Operations of the British Forces from the Commencement to the Treaty of Nanking‎^[3], London: Saunders and Otley, →OCLC, pages 306–307:

  Connected, however, as it is by an elaborate system of inland navigation with all the principal cities of the rich and productive province in which it is situated, among which Soo-chow-foo, the most important manufacturing town of the empire, occupies the foremost rank, Shang-hae must necessarily serve as the entrepôt of a considerable export and import trade, receiving, in exchange for the stuffs, silks, and wares of the province, the cargoes of grain, metals, and woollen goods, brought by the junks from Japan, Corea, Formosa, the southern ports, and Singapore. […]
  Shang-hae is apparently a very ancient town, bearing on its walls and buildings, private as well as public, evidence of the ravages of long periods of time.

• 1849, Henry Charles Sirr, chapter XIII, in China and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufactures: the Evils Arising from the Opium Trade: with a Glance at our Religious, Moral, and Commercial Intercourse with the Country‎^[4], volume I, Wm. S. Orr & Co., →OCLC, page 210:

  The city of Shang-hae is surrounded by a wall about three miles and a quarter in circuit, which is not fortified in any manner; there are six entrances at gates, which give ingress and egress to the inhabitants of the city and environs; four of these gates open into the neighbourhood of the river where the warehouses of the merchants are situated.

• 1854, John Oxenford, “Supplementary Chapter”, in History of the Insurrection in China; with Notices of the Christianity, Creed, and Proclamations of the Insurgents‎^[5], →OCLC, page 289:

  He reached Sou-Tcheou on the 10th, Tchang-Tcheou, on the Grand Canal, on the 13th, and Tan-Yang on the 14th; but when at the latter place, he found the canal so shallow, that he could proceed no further, and therefore returned to Chang-Haï (Shang-hae).
  The foreign residents at Chang-Haï were much tranquillized by the arrival of her Majesty's steamship Hermes, on the 21st of March, with Sir George Bonham, the British Plenipotentiary, who visited the place to ascertain how far the accounts connected with the progress of the rebellion were to be relied upon, and to determine whether interference on the part of the English would be justifiable.

• 1863 July 29, Edmund Hope Verney, “Letters”, in Allan Pritchard, editor, Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65‎^[6], Vancouver: UBC Press, published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 157–158:

  The clergyman, Mr Reeves, was at Shang-hae for some time, and has stayed at the Rectory in 1857 when you came to talk to him about Chinese matters.