River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh [264]
As a supplement to Neel’s library I have relied also on the work of many contemporary and near-contemporary scholars and historians. To list all the books, articles and essays that have enriched this narrative would be impossible here, but it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge my gratitude for, and indebtedness to, the work of the following: E. N. Anderson, Robert Antony, S. F. Balfour, Jack Beeching, David Bello, Henry and Sidney Berry-Hill, Kingsley Bolton, J. M. Braga, Lucile Brockway, Anne Bulley, Hsin-Pao Chang, Gideon Chen, Weng Eang Cheong, Craig Clunas, Alice Coats, Patrick Conner, A. H. Crook, Carl L. Crossman, Stephen Dobbs, Jacques M. Downs, Wolfram Eberhard, Mark Elvin, Fa-ti Fan, Amar Farooqui, Peter Ward Fay, R. W. Ferrier, S. N. Gajendragadkar, Valery M. Garrett, John Gascoigne, L. Gibbs, Basil Greenhill, Martin Gregory, Mary and John Gribbin, Amalendu Guha, Deyan Guo, G. A. C. Herklots, A. P. Hill, Bret Hinsch, Ke-en Ho, Nan Powell Hodges, A. W. Hummell, Robin Hutcheon, Christopher Hutton, Graham E. Johnson, Russell Jones, Maneck Furdoonji Kanga, Frank Kehl, Maggie Keswick, Jane Kilpatrick, Paul Kriwaczek, Roy Lancaster, Daniel Irving Larkin, Thomas N. Layton, Zhiwei Liu, Hosea Ballou Morse, H. Le Rougetel, Elma Loines, David R. MacGregor, Joyce Madancy, Pierre-Yves Manguin, John McCoy, Wilson Menard, Erik Mueggler, Yong Sang Ng, E. H. Parker, Glen D. Peterson, James Duncan Phillips, Behesti Minocher N. Pundol Saheb, Peter Raby, Desmond Ray, H. E. Richardson, Dingxu Shi, Asiya Siddiqi, Helen F. Siu, Anthony Xavier Soares, Tan Chung, Madhavi Thampi, Adrian P. Thomas, G. R. Tibbetts, G. H. R. Tillotson, Yun Hui Tsu, Peter Valder, Paul A. Van Dyke, Arthur Waley, Barbara E. Ward, Rubie S. Watson, Tyler Whittle, G. R. Worcester, Ching-chao Wu and Liu Yu.
For help with details of fact and language, for assistance in tracking down materials, and for their support, I am greatly beholden to Robert Antony, Pengyew Chin, Amar Farooqui, Atish Ghosh, Guoliang Guo, Ashutosh Kumar, Jiajing Liu, Ming Lu, Megha Majumdar, Cecil Pinto, Rahul Srivastava, Mo-lin Yee, Xu Xi and most particularly, Kingsley Bolton and Robert McCabe. To Shernaz Italia, Freny Khodaiji and their extended families, I owe an immense and very special debt of gratitude.
The long journey upriver would have been vastly more difficult without the unflagging support of Barney Karpfinger, my agent, and Roland Philipps, my publisher and editor in the UK; without Debbie, my wife and first reader, this vessel would almost certainly have run aground; without my children, Lila and Nayan it could not have kept to its course. My mother, Anjali Ghosh, taught me to read – without her the voyage would never have begun.
Table of Contents
Also by Amitav Ghosh
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Part I: Islands
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Part II: Canton
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Part III: Commissioner Lin
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Acknowledgements