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Mer de Chine. Route de Sincapour a Saigon.

ALLEN, CLEMENT FR [FRANCIS ROMILLY]. F RBiblio.com

Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance. China. Report for the Year 1889 on the Trade of Kewkiang. Foreign Office 1890 Annual Series No. 704.

1890143041London.: HMSO. 1890. Colour folding map 13pp original wrappers quarto very good copy. P.D. Coates author of The China Consuls.Hong Kong OUP 1988 states p. 171 that for a considerable time consular promotion of British trade seems to have been largely confined to recommendations and hints in the annual trade reports sent by each consulate to the Foreign Office. They had varied in content and quality according to the man and the place but good or bad the Foreign Office had given little encouragement and they were poorly publicized and not well-known to the public. This report by Clement F.R.Francis Romilly Allen 1844-1920 then H M’s Consul at Kewkiang reviews the import export and transit trade recorded at this treaty port in 1889. Kewkiang KiuKiang on the Middle Yangtse was opened by treaty with Great Britain in January 1862. As treaty ports went Kewkiang was hardly a great success in comparison with the highly successful Hankow some 140 miles further up the Great River and opened in the same year. In another place as mentioned in Coates p.262 Consul Allen had reviewed Kewkiang’s unspectacular history as a nineteenth century treaty port concluding in the 1889 report that it would continue in the same old tracks unless something happened to change its fortunes. Consul Allen was of a whimsical turn of mind and in this particular report under “General Remarks comments that he would place trade reports in two classes. “There are ports at which the year is habitually uneventful where there is nothing to say about the trade which has not been said a dozen times already and where there are no possible developments to make remarks on. …. At other ports it may be possible to impart really useful intelligence and to make observations which may prove of benefit to the merchant in China or the manufacturer in England. A Kewkiang trade report I am sorry to say must as a rule be included in the first named class.” At the same time he took the trouble to provide a coloured and annotated map of the province based he mentions on one drawn by an American missionary which adds to the usefulness of the 1889 report. Like many of his colleagues Allen was a scholar and sinologue by inclination and was the translator of the Shih Ching or Classic of Poetry published in London by Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. in 1891. This was he wrote "offered to the student of Chinese hoping that he may find it of some use in supplementing Dr. Legge’s standard edition of the Chinese classics which will not be superseded in our time". Kewkiang is one of the old Romanized forms for the city of 九江 Jiǔjiāng. . HMSO. unknown

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