by Karl Gutzlaff (2002) Paperback.
234x156 mm
First published in 1834
242 pages
ISBN 1-874287-60-0
£16.99
"A saint, a crank, a visionary, a true pioneer, and a deluded fanatic." The Protestant missionary Karl, sometimes Anglicised as Charles Gutzlaff (1803-1851) was all of these - but he was also a maritme traveller of the first rank. The journals of his exploits in Siam (Thailand), China and Korea - undertaken shortly after the death of his wife and daughter - provide some of the earliest and most graphic portraits of those lands and their peoples. Such was his zeal, and so frequent his brushes with the Chinese mandarins, that it is a wonder he avoided injury, imprisonment, and even execution.
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION
by the Rev. W. Ellis
(author of “Polynesian Researches, etc.)
Brief Notice of China and Siam, and of the Labours of Protestant
Missionaries in these and the adjacent countries — Sketches
of Morrison, Milne, Gutzlaff, and Leang Afa
JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN SIAM
CHAPTER I
Results of Arrival in Siam — Labours — Royal Family
— Natives — Laos — Cambojans — Missions —
Practices
CHAPTER II
Departure for Teen-tsin — Voyage — Habits of the Sailors
— Usefulness —Formosa — Storm — Tako —Public
Dinner — Peking
CHAPTER III
Teen-tsin — Medical Practice — Manners of the People
— Return to Macao
SECOND VOYAGE ALONG THE COAST OF CHINA
CHAPTER I
Design of the Expedition — Makung — Liberality of Emigrants
— Aspects of the Country
CHAPTER II
Arrival at Amoy — Mandarins — Ordered to leave the Port
— Conference with the Te-tuh — View of the Country —
Inhabitants
CHAPTER III
Formosa — Wan-gan — Intercourse with the Natives —
Insults of the Mandarins — Mohammedans— Habits of the
Peasantry —Native Christians
CHAPTER IV
Chu-san Passage — Ning-po — Chin-hae — Visitors
— Education — Duplicity —Kin-tang
CHAPTER V
Shang-hae — Respect for Age — Ordered to depart —
Permission to trade — Fortifications — Forrnal Audience
— Departure — Shan-tung
CHAPTER VI
Corea — Chwang-shan — Christianity — Conduct of
the Coreans — Irreligion — Mandarins from the Capital
— Condition of the People — Presents returned —
Character of the Coreans
CHAPTER VII
Napa-keang — Temple of Lin-hae — Distribution of Books
— Conduct
THIRD VOYAGE
Departure from Macao — Fuhkeen Fishermen — Kae-chow
— Chinese Colonists — Distribution of Books — Cha-poo
— Kin-tang — The Priests — Temple of Budha —
Application of Priests for Books
Religions of China
Christianity in China
APPENDIX
Intercourse with China