A year in China (Registro nro. 117199)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DS |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Williams, Martha Noyes, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1813-1879 |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A year in China |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-07-10 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Charlene Taylor, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "A year in China : and a narrative of capture and imprisonment, when homeward…." by Mrs. H. Dwight Williams is a travel memoir and captivity narrative written in the mid-19th century. It follows an American woman’s year-long journey to and within China, recorded en route through African and Indian Ocean ports, with keen observations on places, peoples, missions, and colonial life, and culminates in her capture aboard the Confederate raider Florida while returning home. Expect vivid sea passages, ethnographic sketches, and city portraits of Hong Kong, Macao, Canton, and Swatow from the perspective of the wife of a customs commissioner. The opening of the work begins with an introductory note by William Cullen Bryant explaining the new American interest in China, the foreign customs service that employs the author’s husband, and a hint of the captivity episode that closes the narrative. Chapter I recounts departure from New York on the steamer Poyang, early seasickness and shipboard devotions, coaling at the Cape Verde island of St. Vincent (where the ship is briefly mistaken for a rebel cruiser), glimpses of the West African coast near Liberia with fishermen bartering from canoes, a sodden equatorial crossing, and detailed impressions of St. Paul de Loanda—its forts, fading slave-trade legacy, mixed languages, coerced labor gangs singing as they coal, and vigilant British consular oversight. Chapter II covers a bureaucratic delay at Luanda, a brisk run down the desolate Namib coast, the odd noon “shadowless” moment under the sun, fog-bound entry to Table Bay, Sunday worship at St. George’s Cathedral with a choir of Kaffir boys, a roaring “black southeaster,” and a day of exploring Cape Town’s shops, racially mixed civic life, the government-backed Kaffir College (workshops, chapel, and curriculum), the museum and library (notable natural history and ethnographic displays), botanical garden, industrial schools, and ambitious public works. At the start of Chapter III the ship leaves Cape Town past the Cape of Good Hope, meets outbound vessels, crosses a swath of “whale’s feed” and an American whaler hungry for news, and glides into the Indian Ocean under brilliant southern skies and the Southern Cross while nearing Madagascar—the point at which the excerpt ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1864 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | China -- Description and travel |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Capture at sea -- Personal narratives |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Piracy -- Personal narratives |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bryant, William Cullen, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1794-1878 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/yearinchinaandna00will/page/n3/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/yearinchinaandna00will/page/n3/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76474">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76474</a> |
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