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Price: £32.00
Pages: 281
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Publication Date:
01 August 2014
Trim Size: 9.10 X 6.30 in
ISBN: 9789888208722
Format: Hardcover
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"John Bowring (1792-1872) was one of the most interesting and influential of Hong Kong's Governors. The career of this polymath exemplified an understanding of the relationship between economic and political freedom. This scholarly and very readable biogr
"It is extremely readable because the author paints a complete and vivid picture--drawn from 50 pages of notes and bibliography--not just of Sir John and his family but of Victorian England when it was becoming a confident, growing and sometimes ugly imperi
"Free Trade's First Missionary is a welcome introduction to the life of a man who helped shapt the future of trade in China." --South China Morning Post, 7 September 2014.
"Biographers shun polymaths. As a linguistic genius, free-wheeling entrepreneur, hymnist, colonial governor, Oriental plenipotentiary and the champion of self-determination, freedom of conscience and, above all, free trade, Bowring has had to wait nearly
"One hundred and forty years after his death, John Bowring finally has the biography his eventful and enterprising life deserves. From the pages of this fast-paced and well-written biography, Bowring emerges not as the heinous villain who tricked Britain
"It is extremely readable because the author paints a complete and vivid picture--drawn from 50 pages of notes and bibliography--not just of Sir John and his family but of Victorian England when it was becoming a confident, growing and sometimes ugly imperi
"Free Trade's First Missionary is a welcome introduction to the life of a man who helped shapt the future of trade in China." --South China Morning Post, 7 September 2014.
"Biographers shun polymaths. As a linguistic genius, free-wheeling entrepreneur, hymnist, colonial governor, Oriental plenipotentiary and the champion of self-determination, freedom of conscience and, above all, free trade, Bowring has had to wait nearly
"One hundred and forty years after his death, John Bowring finally has the biography his eventful and enterprising life deserves. From the pages of this fast-paced and well-written biography, Bowring emerges not as the heinous villain who tricked Britain
Philip Bowring is a journalist based in Asia since 1973 variously as correspondent for the Financial Times, editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, and columnist for the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal and South China Morning Post. He is distantly related to Sir John Bowring.