Book
Narrative of a voyage to Java, China, and the great Loo-Choo Island
E. Moxon • London • Published In 1840 • Pages:
By: Hall, Basil.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a captain's journal of a British Embassy to China, which included visits to Java, Korea, and the 'Great Loo-Choo Islands' (Ryukyus). While the British Ambassador was waiting in Canton for a response from the Imperial Court, Captains Maxwell and Hall carried out nautical investigations in the Yellow and East China Seas. They spent several weeks on Okinawa and this is the fascinating account of that visit. Because there was no real political motive in the visit, both sides exhibited a sensitivity and courtesy that was truly remarkable for the times. However, the Ryukyuns tried their utmost to keep the British off the island, perhaps out of fear that they might discover their ambiguous political status: overtly a tributary state of China, but covertly a vassal state of Japan.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Okinawans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1816
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1816
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Okinawa, Japan
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Captain Basil Hall
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 42034701
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ryukyuans