One of the most accessible studies on the history of the development of British trade with China between 1637, the first voyage to China, and 1842, the founding of Hong Kong. Austin Coates has contributed a new foreword to this edition.

Macao and the British 1637-1842: Prelude to Hong Kong

Coates, Austin

History

Oxford University Press

Unexpectedly appointed magistrate in a country district in Hongkong, the author found himself plunged into a Chinese world about which he knew next to nothing and had to learn as fast as possible.This he does, taking the reader with him through the errors, puzzles, and bafflements of sixteen cases which came into his court.Whether he is dealing with cows, watercress beds, squatters, dragons, quarrelling wives, or a Buddhist abbot, the author brings his reader into each case as if the reader were the actual judge, and at a given moment the solution comes to the reader as it came to the magistrate.Austin Coates lived the greater part of his life in the East, starting in 1944, when war service brought him to India. Born in London in 1922, son of the composer Eric Coates, he combined the early part of his writing career with work as a colonial administrator, diplomat, and adviser on Chinese affairs. He left government service in 1962, and thereafter resided mainly in Hongkong until his death in 1997.

Myself a Mandarin (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)

This historical novel is based on the true story of the affair between the Chinese orphan Martha Herop and her English lover, son of the founder of Lloyd's, in the 18th century.

City of Broken Promises

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

OUP China

Austin Coates' long career in the Government of Hong Kong provided a rich source of material for his novels and autobiographical books. In this detailed study, he traces the history of the Portuguese in the Far East, from their peaceful settlement in the 1550s through to the arrival of the British in the eighteenth century, and the extraordinary outcome of Portugal's struggle for sovereignty in Macao.

A Macao Narrative

Asia

Starting with the discovery of rubber in Brazil and its early industrial uses in France, Britain and America, this comprehensive history uses newly-culled, original sources to recount the rubber trade's worldwide growth and development.

The Commerce in Rubber: The First 250 Years

In addition to representing quantities, many people believe that numbers have deeper meanings. A noted orientalist and writer, Coates explains his system of reading people's characters and predicting their fortunes based on their names and birth dates.

Numerology

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

Mayflower Books

MULLER

1982 HEINEMANN EDUCATIONAL BOOKS WRITING IN ASIA SERIES SOFTCOVER

Myself a Mandarin (Writing in Asia)

Heinemann

In addition to representing quantities, many people believe that numbers have deeper meanings. A noted orientalist and writer, Coates explains his system of reading people's characters and predicting their fortunes based on their names and birth dates.

Numerology: The Meaning of Numbers

LYLE STUART +

Carol Pub. Group

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Macao and the British 1637-1842: Prelude to Hong Kong

Myself a Mandarin (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)

City of Broken Promises

A Macao Narrative

The Commerce in Rubber: The First 250 Years

Numerology

Numerology

Myself a Mandarin (Writing in Asia)

Numerology: The Meaning of Numbers

Numerology