‎Chine‎

‎PIRAZZOLI-T’SERSTEVENS, Michèle:‎

‎Living architecture. Chinese.‎

‎New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1971, in-8vo, 191 p., richely ill. with very nices heliogravures, drawings and plans, orig. clothbound with illustr. jacket slightly damaged.‎

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‎PIREY SAINT-ALBY (B. de).‎

‎Vagues sanglantes. Victoires navales d'autrefois.‎

‎Plon, 1930, in-12, 266 pp, bandeaux, culs-de-lampe et dessins de Gustave Alaux, cart. percaline crème, dos lisse avec titres rouges, plats de papier carmin (rel. de l'époque), papier jauni, bon état‎

‎"Un combat entre des galères françaises et espagnoles en août 1638, alors que Richelieu était Grand Maître de la Navigation ; deux batailles entre des frégates françaises et anglaises à Algésiras et à Cadix au cours de l'été 1801, se terminant par une scène où le Premier Consul Bonaparte déclara que le capitaine Troude était l'Horace français ; et le combat entre des navires français et chinois sur la rivière Min à la fin du mois d'août 1884, constituent les trois victoires décrites avec fougue et accompagnées de gravures sur bois très guerrières dans ce petit livre. Les descriptions minutieuses des navires, et des uniformes des trois époques concernées seront d'un intérêt considérable pour les amateurs d'histoire navale." (H. D. Hill Fairfax, Books Abroad, 1931) Désormais les frais d'envoi sont de 6 € seulement pour les livres jusqu'à 1 kg (colissimo suivi), pour la France métropolitaine.‎

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‎Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, Michèle‎

‎China. Bilddokumentation: Nicolas Bouvier und Denise Blum.‎

‎Fribourg, Office du Livre 1970. Kl.-4°. 192 S. Original-Pappband. (=Architektur der Welt).‎

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‎PIRAZZOLI-T´SERSTEVEN/BOUVIER, Michele/Nicolas.‎

‎ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSELLE. CHINE.‎

‎Pirovano, Carlo (Ed.)‎

‎Ombre elettriche. Saggi e ricerche sul cinema cinese.‎

‎Editoriale Electa; (Mailand), 1982. 274 S.; mit sehr zahlreichen Abbildungen. Broschiert.‎

‎Ein gutes Ex.; Einband etwas berieben. - Texte italienisch. - Premessa Marco Miiller -- Introduzione -- II cinema cinese fa il suo ingresso -- sulla scena mondiale -- Jay Leyda -- Problemi del cinema cinese d'oggi -- Jay Leyda -- Introduzione all'estetica e alla politica -- del cinema cinese -- Tony Rayns -- All'incantatore del giardino dei peri -- Sergej Ejzenstejn -- Per una storia del cinema cinese Intervista con un pioniere del cinema dell'Estremo Oriente Lo sviluppo storico del cinema cinese Lau Shing-Hon -- I primi film sonori cinesi Stephen Horowitz -- Note sul cinema cinese degli anni Trenta Marion Blank -- II cinema di Shanghai sotto l'occupazione giapponese (1939-1945) Sato Tadao -- La fondazione degli Studi cinematografici del Nord-est Patricia Wilson -- Il cinema cinese e le lotte politiche -- in Cina dal 1949 al 1981 -- Regis Bergeron -- La Rivoluzione culturale e le sue -- conseguenze -- sulla produzione -- cinematografica cinese -- (1966-1981) -- Paul Clark -- Caratteri ed evoluzioni del lavoro creativo nel cinema cinese (1949-1980) Lau Yiu-Kuen -- Storia per immagini del cinema cinese -- I manifesti -- I manifesti cinematografici in Cina -- Xiong Lei -- Per una teoria del cinema cinese Le teorie del cinema cinese in rapporto all'estetica classica Lin Niantong -- Cinema cinese: gli autori -- I fratelli Wan, sessantanni di cinema -- d'animazione in Cina -- Marìe-Claire Quiquemelle -- Wang Ping -- Patricia Wilson -- Intervista con Xie Jin -- Marco Müller.‎

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‎Pisu Renata.‎

‎L'armée ensevelie de l'Empereur Qin - La plus grande découverte archéologique du siècle -‎

‎France Loisirs. Non daté. In-4. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 78 pages. Nombreuses photographies en couleurs dans et/ou hors texte dont frontispice. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 951-Chine‎

‎Classification Dewey : 951-Chine‎

Riferimento per il libraio : R160208182

‎PISU Renata‎

‎L'armée ensevelie de l'empereur Qin.‎

‎Cartonnage de l'éditeur sous jaquette, 28X22 cm, 78 pages, copyright 1985, illustrations en couleurs, éditions France loisirs. Très bon état.‎

‎Nous sommes absents jusqu'au 17 septembre. Nous reprendrons les expéditions à cette date. Merci.‎

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‎PISU RENATA.‎

‎TAISHAN. MONTAGNE SACREE DE LA CHINE.‎

‎ROBERT LAFFONT . COLLECTION LES HAUTS LIEUX DE LA SPIRITUALITE.. 1985.. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 138 pages. 1ère de couverture illustrée en couleurs. Nombreuses photographies en noir et blanc et couleurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 951-Chine‎

‎Version française de Philippe Baillet. Photographies de Shih Chia - Fu. Classification Dewey : 951-Chine‎

Riferimento per il libraio : R160053169

‎PISU RENATA.‎

‎TAISHAN - MONTAGNE SACREE DE LA CHINE - COLLECTION LES HAUTS LIEUS DE LA SPIRITUALITE‎

‎ROBERT LAFFONT. 1985. In-Folio. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 137 Pages - Nombreuses planches photos et dessins en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans et hors texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 951-Chine‎

‎Photographies de S. CHIA-FU Classification Dewey : 951-Chine‎

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‎PISU (Renata).‎

‎L'Armée ensevelie de l'empereur Qin - La plus grande de découverte archéologique du siècle.‎

‎Traduction et adaptation, par Christian PESSEY, de "I Soldati dell' imperatore Qin Shi Huang", ouvrage publié en 1983 par la journaliste italienne Renata PISU alternant photos couleurs de la fameuse armée de guerriers en terre cuite grandeur nature, tous différents, avec leurs chevaux, leurs chars et leurs armes, gardant le mausolée de l'empereur Qin (premier unificateur de la Chine, mort en 210 av. J.-C,), et textes sur le tumulus et les fosses, "l'armée ensevelie" et la société chinoise de l'époque; chronologie; index; plan et cartes, croquis et nombreuses photos couleurs. 1ère édition; exemplaire bien complet de sa jaquette. Français‎

‎Pisu, Renata‎

‎Qui Pechino‎

‎cm. 28, rilegatura editoriale in cartone; pp, 64, numerose illustrazioni nel testo, 24 tavole a colori e 48 tavole in nero fuori testo‎

‎PITON Charles‎

‎La Chine sa religion,ses mœurs,ses missions.‎

‎In 12 cartonné rouge à décor passe-partout.Faux-titre, titre,II,149 pages,1 page de table des matières, illustrations en noir hors-texte. Toulouse société des livres religieux 1880.Coiffes réparées.Sinon bon exemplaire‎

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‎Pizzinelli Corrado‎

‎Le Due Cine‎

‎br. ed.‎

‎Pizzini F, Collotti Pischel E‎

‎La lunga vita di Mao Tzetung‎

‎21 cm, br. illustrata, p. xxxvii, 349; numerose foto, alcune sottolineature a matita‎

‎PKG 17 : Halbleder. - Fontein, Jan / Hempel, Rose‎

‎China - Korea - Japan.‎

‎Berlin, Propyläen Verlag, 1968. 4° (28x20), 362 S. + 456 Tafeln mit 527 Abb., davon 56 farbig, 33 Zeichnungen und 4 Karten im Text, OHldr, ohne Gebrauchsspuren, offensichtlich ungelesen, [= PKG Propyläen Kunstgeschichte in achtzehn Bänden; 17 : Halbleder-Ausgabe],‎

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‎PLANTADE Jean-Marc et PLANTADE Yidir‎

‎"La face cachée de la Chine; toute la vérité sur la plus grande jungle économique du monde. Collection : Document."‎

‎Paris, Bourin , Editeur, 2006. 14 x 22, 284 pp., broché, très bon état.‎

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‎PLAN CARPIN (Jean de)‎

‎Histoire des Mongols: Enquéte d'un envoyé d'Innocent IV dans l'Empire Tartare (1245-1247)‎

‎Paris, Editions Franciscaines, 1961. 1 volume, broché, couvertures souples imprimées, in-8, 157 pp., 1 carte, très bon état.‎

‎Table des Matieres: Introduction - Bibilographie sommaire - Le Territoire des Tartares - La Population - Le Culte de Dieu - Les Moeurs Mongoles - Les Origines de L'Empire Tartare - La Guerre et l'organisation de l'armée - Comment les Mongols concluent la Paix - Comment il faut faire front aux Mongols - Les Provinces que nous avons traversées, où elles se situent et comment elles se présentent - Appendices.‎

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‎PLANTADE YIDIR ET JEAN-MARC‎

‎LA FACE CACHEE DE LA CHINE - TOUTE LA VERITE SUR LA PLUS GRANDE JUNGLE ECONOMIQUE DU MONDE‎

‎BOURIN. 2006. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 284 pages. 1 carte en noir et blanc, hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 951-Chine‎

‎Classification Dewey : 951-Chine‎

Riferimento per il libraio : R200088064

‎PLAUCHUT (Edmond)‎

‎Les Races Jaunes - Les Célestes‎

‎Paris, Schleicher Frères Editeurs, 1898. 1 volume in-12, nombreuses illustrations (55) in-texte, 4 planches en couleurs hors texte, reliure toilée d'éditeur, couvertures conservées, très bon état général. Un autre exemplaire, à cartonnage éditeur polychrome, en très bon état est vendu 130 .‎

‎Cet ouvrage appartient à la Petite Encyclopédie Populaire Illustrée. Il présente de manière attrayante moeurs et coutumes des Célestes avec de multiples figures descriptives. L'une des planches en couleurs représente un fumeur d'opium.‎

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‎PLA National Defense University China‎

‎International Strategic Relations And China's National Security: Volume 1‎

‎Hardback. New. The international strategic relations have been undergoing great turbulence readjustment and reformation since the financial crisis in 2008. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : A9789814675734 ISBN : 9814675733 9789814675734

‎PLA National Defense University China‎

‎International Strategic Relations And China's National Security: World At The Crossroads‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : B9789813148987 ISBN : 9813148985 9789813148987

‎Plantade, Charles:‎

‎Le mariage Chinoise. Chansonnette comique. Paroles du Mis. Eug. de Lonlay [chant et piano]‎

‎[3] S. Am Rücken zwei Löcher. Leicht stockfleckig. Titelvignette.‎

‎Plate, A. G‎

‎Der ferne Osten. Ein Reisehandbuch.‎

‎Bremen, Schünemann, 1907. 2 Bll., 298 S. mit zahlr. Textabb. und Karten. 8°. OLwd. (etw. fleckig).‎

‎Erste Ausgabe. - Papierbedingt kaum gebräunt. Vorsatz gestempelt.‎

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‎Plate, Herbert‎

‎Über die Ketten der Lutingbrücke. Maos rote Rebellen auf dem langen Marsch.‎

‎Balve/Sauerland, Engelbert-Verlag, 1974. 21 cm, 156 Seiten, mit einer Karte, Pappband in Leinenstruktur. 1. Auflage wenig gebraucht, gut erhalten.‎

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‎Platt Stephen R.‎

‎Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War‎

‎8vo, br. ed. xix-470pp. A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China. The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure. This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world. Hong Kong in 1852 was a diseased and watery place, a rocky island off the southern shore of the Qing Empire where the inhabitants lived in dread of what one described as "the miasma set free from the ground which was everywhere being turned up." A small British settlement sat between the mountains and the bay, but the emerald and sapphire glory of the scene belied the darkness below the surface. Leaving the concentration of godowns, military barracks, and trading firms along the colony's nostalgically named central streets (The Queen's Road, Wellington Street, Holly-wood Road), one could find the grandest vistas in the gravel paths that led up the coast into the hills, but the European settlement soon gave way to scattered Chinese houses among fields growing rice and sweet potatoes unchanged in the decade since the British took the island as their prize in the Opium War. Some of the wealthier merchants had built opulent mansions in those hills, with terraced gardens commanding a view of the harbor and town. But as though their builders had strayed too far from the protection of the settlement, the inhabitants of those houses sickened and died. Marked as "homes of fever or death," the ghostly manors sat silent and abandoned, their empty gaze passing judgment on the settlers below. One of those settlers was Theodore Hamberg, a young Swedish missionary with a thin chinstrap beard that set off his delicate, nearly effeminate features. He was blessed with a lovely voice, and in his youth in Stockholm he had sung together with Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale." But while Lind went on to conquer the opera halls of Europe and America, bringing suitors such as Frédéric Chopin and Hans Christian Andersen to their knees along the way, Hamberg's life took an entirely different path. His strong tenor found its destined outlet in preaching, and in 1847 he left his native Sweden to sail to the opposite end of the world, to this malarial colony of Hong Kong, with the sole purpose of bringing the Chinese to their knees after a different fashion. Theodore Hamberg might well have lived his life in obscurity, for his proudest accomplishments meant little to anyone beyond a small circle of Protestant missionaries. He was one of the first Europeans in his generation to brave the Chinese countryside, leaving the relative safety of Hong Kong to preach in a village outside the Chinese trading port of Canton a hundred miles up the Pearl River (though for health reasons he finally returned to the colony). He was also the first to learn to speak the dialect of the Hakka, or "guest people"-a gypsy minority thickly populous in south China. All of that might have meant little to anyone in the world outside except that one day in the late spring of 1852, one of his converts from the countryside brought a guest to meet him, a short, round-faced Hakka named Hong Rengan who had a remarkable story to tell. The strangest thing about this Hakka, Hamberg recalled from their first meeting, was how much he already seemed to know about God and Jesus despite the fact that he hailed from well beyond the narrow reach of the Hong Kong missionaries. Hamberg listened with curiosity as Hong Rengan gave a baffling account of the events leading to his arrival in Hong Kong. He spoke of visions and battles, armies and congregations of believers, a heavenly prophet from among the Hakkas. He had, or at least so he claimed, been hunted by the agents of the Qing dynasty and had lived in disguise under an assumed name. He had been kidnapped, had escaped, and had lived for four days in the forest, six days in a cave. None of it made much sense, though, and Hamberg confessed, "I could form no clear conception of the whole matter." Not knowing what to make of the story, he asked Hong Rengan to write it down, which he did, and then-though Hamberg had expected him to stay for baptism-he left without explanation. Hamberg put the sheets of paper with Hong Rengan's story into his desk and turned his mind to other matters. He would think little of them again for nearly a year, until the spring of 1853 when the news came that Nanjing had fallen in a torrent of blood, and Hamberg realized that the strange events sketched out in Hong Rengan's tale meant more than he had ever imagined. News of the mounting upheaval in China reached Hamberg and the other settlers in Hong Kong and up the coast in Shanghai only in scattered and vague accounts. From Chinese government reports there seemed no pattern to the rising disorder of the early 1850s, no principle or cohesion. Local uprisings and small-scale banditry in China's countryside were a perennial thorn in the side of the imperial authorities, hardly anything new or noteworthy, though they certainly did seem to have increased in the years following the Opium War. Chinese travelers and clandestine Catholic missionaries deep in the interior forwarded rumors of some larger movement led by a man known as "Tian De," or "Heavenly Virtue," but just as many accounts reported that the man was dead, killed by imperial forces, or that he had never existed in the first place. In the absence of any clear news, the foreigners in their coastal ports paid little attention, concerned only that bandits might disrupt the production of tea and silk. But the fall of the southern capital of Nanjing in 1853 brought a massive civil war right to the doorstep of the foreign settlement in Shanghai, which was just two hundred miles downriver at the mouth of the sea. Half a million rebels calling themselves the Taiping Tianguo ("Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace") flooded down the Yangtze from central China on a grand flotilla of commandeered ships to Nanjing, leaving a swath of emptied cities and shattered imperial defenses behind them, and the debate was settled; this was no mere bandit uprising. Fear gripped the city of Shanghai. There was no direct communication with Nanjing, no concrete information (the American steamer Susquehanna tried to sail upriver to Nanjing to investigate but ran aground). Rumors spread that the insurgents would next march on Shanghai to attack the foreigners, and the city's Chinese population boarded up their houses, packed up their furniture, and took to riverboats or fled into the countryside for safety. The foreign settlers called up their unready defenses, rallying a haphazard volunteer defense corps to man the city walls and bringing up the few ships in ready reach-two British steamers and a brig-of- war, and one steamer each for the French and Americans. But there it ended, at least for the time being. The Taiping did not march on Shanghai, and the city's vigilance eased off. Instead, the rebels set their targets northward toward Beijing, the capital of the Manchu rulers, and dug in for a long and bloody campaign with Nanjing as their base of operations. Their "Heavenly Capital," as Nanjing was now renamed, lay tantalizingly just out of reach of Shanghai. One British ship did manage to visit in late April 1853 but brought back conflicting impressions of what was happening there, the clearest opinion being that of the British plenipotentiary, who declared the Taiping to have an ideology of "superstition and nonsense." The visitors learned nothing about the rebels' origins. Despite the scarcity of clear information, raw accounts of the civil war in China radiated outward from Shanghai and Hong Kong to capture the imagination of the Western world. Europe had been through its own convulsions just five years earlier with the revolutions of 1848, and the events in China seemed a remarkable parallel: the downtrodden people of China, oppressed by their Manchu overlords, had, it seemed, risen up to demand satisfaction. The Economist called it "a social change or convulsion such as have of late afflicted Europe" and mused that "it is singular to find similar commotions at the same time in Asia and Europe." Here was evidence that the empire at the other end of the world was now connected to the economic and political systems of the West. Karl Marx, in 1853 a London correspondent for the New-York Daily Tribune struggling to give shape to his ideas on capitalism, likewise considered the rebellion in China to be a sign of China's integration into the global economy, describing it as the end result of Britain's forcing China open to foreign trade in the recent Opium War. In Marx's terminology, what was happening in China was not merely a rebellion or a hodgepodge of uprisings but "one formidable revolution," one that demonstrated the interconnectedness of the industrial world. Indeed, it was in China, he argued, that one could see the future of the West: "the next uprising of the people of Europe, and their next movement for republican freedom and economy of Government," he wrote, "may depend more probably on what is now passing in the Celestial Empire- the very opposite of Europe-than on any other political cause that now exists." As he explained it, the disorder in China had its roots in the opium trade; a decade earlier, Britain had cracked China's markets open with its warships, and in doing so it had undermined the "superstitious faith" of the Chinese in their ruling dynasty. Exposure to the world meant the destruction of the old order, he believed, for "dissolution must follow as surely as that of any mummy carefully preserved in a hermetically sealed coffin, whenever it is brought into contact with the open air." But the effects of the Qing dynasty's dissolution would not be limited to China itself. The whole of the Taiping Revolution was, in his mind, Britain's fault, and now the effects of her actions overseas were going to be felt back home: "the question," he wrote, "is how that revolution will in time react on England, and through England on Europe." Marx predicted that the loss of China's markets to the Taiping Revolution would undermine British exports of cotton and wool. Merchants in a chaotic China would accept only bullion in exchange for their goods, sapping Britain's stores of precious metals. Worse, the revolution would cut off England's source of tea imports, and the price of tea (to which most of the British were addicted) would spike in England at the same time that a poor harvest in Western Europe looked likely to send food prices through the roof, reducing still further the demand for manufactured goods and undermining the whole manufacturing industry on which Britain's economy depended. "It may be safely augured," Marx concluded, "that the Chinese revolution will throw the spark into the overloaded mine of the present industrial system and cause the explosion of the long-prepared general crisis, which, spreading abroad, will be closely followed by political revolutions on the Continent." If Marx was keen to convince the readers of the New-York Daily Tribune that the Chinese civil war was one of class struggle and economic revolution analogous to the movements in Europe, the editors of the Daily Picayune in the southern slave port of New Orleans saw it in rather different terms, after their own particular vision of the world. It was, as they saw it, a racial war, and China was a slave state in upheaval. The Taiping had emerged, the editors explained, from the southern provinces of Guangxi and Guangdong, whose inhabitants were "principally of the primitive Chinese race." The northern Manchus, in contrast, were "the ruling race in China" who had taken the throne two hundred years earlier, since which time "China has been accordingly ruled as a conquered country by its masters." The two races never mixed, they explained, and in accordance with their southern vision of a harmonious slave-based society, the Picayune offered that in China "The quiet, patient, laboring millions have submitted to their masters mostly with exemplary gentleness." The sole threat to the stability of this Manchu-Chinese country of peacefully coexisting masters and slaves was these "primitive" people of south China who refused to submit to the yoke. The Taiping Rebellion, then, was a dark analogy to an uprising of African slaves in the United States. The London Times, for its part, was the most prescient of observers, honing in immediately on the question of whether Britain should send its navy into the Chinese conflict and, if so, on which side. In an editorial on May 17, 1853, just after the news of Nanjing's fall reached London, an editorial in The Times noted that the Taiping seemed unstoppable and that "according to all computable chances, they will succeed thus far in subverting the Government of China." The Times had also run a report from a Shanghai paper asking whether "a change of masters" was something desired by the Chinese nation at large, offering that the Taiping-though hardly beloved in northern China-represented a force of change that was indeed welcome to the Chinese, and "throughout the country the feeling seems to be growing deeper that the exactions and oppressions of the mandarins are no longer to be borne." By the end of the summer, The Times declared flatly that the rebellion in China was "in all respects the greatest revolution the world has yet seen." But the rebels themselves were a cipher. The reader of The Times would easily conclude that the Taiping enjoyed the support, grudging at least, of the Chinese people and were poised to overthrow the Manchus and usher in a new era of government. But the editors also sounded a note of caution about Britain's ignorance. "We are without any substantial information as to the origin or objects of the rebellion," they wrote. "We know that the existing Government of China is likely to be subverted in a civil war, but nothing more." Britain, they worried, simply didn't know enough about the nature or ideology of the rebels to decide whether it should support or encourage them: "We cannot tell in the case before us on which side our interest or our duties may lie-whether the insurrection is justifiable or unjustifiable, promising or unpromising; whether the feelings of the people are involved in it or not, or whether its success would bring a change for the better or worse, or any change at all, in our own relations with the Chinese." As it turned out, however, answers to the most pressing of these questions-of the origins of the rebellion, of who the Taiping really were and what they believed in-were to be found in Hong Kong, scribbled on a few stray sheets of paper stuffed into a drawer in Theodore Hamberg's desk.‎