Paul Henry King
Paul Henry King (1853-1938) was a British Commissioner in the
Early life and family
Paul Henry King, known to his family as 'Jol', was born on 3 June 1853; the son of Paul John King, Senior Registrar in Chancery, and Anna Maria, née Man. He was also grand-nephew of
Career and writings
Paul King served as Commissioner in several
King authored a number of works of fiction and non-fiction, both singly and writing in partnership with his wife (sometimes under the pseudonym, 'William A. Rivers'), exploring various social and class themes relating to life in the treaty ports of China, notably miscegenation or 'Eurasianism,' as it was then commonly termed.
Death
Paul King died of a heart attack while living in Guernsey on 31 July 1938.[16] His obituary for the London Scottish Regiment described him as a great sportsman, his hobbies included: horse riding, fencing, boxing, skating, rowing, cricket, and golf. He was also a proficient linguist, able to speak French, German and Chinese fluently, as well as some Russian.[1][17]
Bibliography
Works by Paul King:
- Paul King, In the Chinese Customs Service: A Personal Record of Forty-Seven Years (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924), republished (London: Heath Cranton, 1930)
- Paul King, Weighed in China's Balance. An Attempt at Explanation (London: Heath Cranton, 1928)
- Paul King (ed.), Voyaging to China in 1855 and 1904: A Contrast in Travel (London: Heath Cranton, 1936), two travel diaries written by Rev. Alexander Williamson & Veronica King
- William A. Rivers [pseudonym of Paul & Veronica King], Anglo-Chinese Sketches (S.R. Menhenott: London, 1903)
- William A. Rivers [pseudonym of Paul & Veronica King], Eurasia: A Tale of Shanghai Life (Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1907)
- William A. Rivers [pseudonym of Paul & Veronica King], The Chartered Junk: A Tale of the Yangtze Valley (Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1910)
- Paul & Veronica King, The Commissioner’s Dilemma: An International Tale of the China of Yesterday (London: Heath Cranton, 1929)
Works about or mentioning Paul King:
- John King Fairbank, Katherine Frost Bruner, Elizabeth Macleod Matheson (eds.), The I.G. In Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907 (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 1975), 2 Vols.
- Robert Bickers, "Purloined Letters: History and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service" Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 40, No. 3 (July, 2006), pp. 691–723
- Jacqueline Young, "Western Residents of China and Their Fictional Writings, 1890-1914" (Doctoral diss., University of Glasgow, 2011)
- Tim Chamberlain, "Books of Change: A Western Family's Writings on China, 1855-1949" Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China, Vol. 75, No. 1 (2013), pp. 55–76
- Hans Van de Ven, Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)
References
- ^ a b "Paul King". The London Scottish Regimental Gazette. 43 (513). September 1938.
- ^ Fairbank, John King; Frost, Katherine Bruner; Matheson, Elizabeth Macleod (eds.) (1975). The I.G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
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has generic name (help) - ^ a b c Chamberlain, Tim (2013). "Books of Change: A Western Family's Writings on China, 1855-1949". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China. 75 (1): 55–76.
- ^ "King, Wilfred Henry Tindal, 1885-1965 (businessman)". Cambridge University Libraries. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ^ Tibbitts, Wendy (15 June 2016). "Fast and Dangerous: An independent spirit in an 8-litre Bentley: Carol Mary Langton King". Dangerous Women (Dangerous Women Project). Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ^ a b c King, Paul (1924). In the Chinese Customs Service: A Personal Record of Forty-Seven Years. London: T. Fisher Unwin.
- ^ Chamberlain, Tim (18 August 2013). "China & Tibet - Through Western Eyes". Waymarks. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-231-13738-6.
- ^ "Arms From Japan for Revolt in China". New York Times. 6 May 1908. p. 6. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
- ^ Carter, James (2 February 2022). "The Tatsu Maru incident in the waning years of the Qing". The China Project. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- S2CID 144829352– via JSTOR.
- ^ Jacqueline Young, "Western Residents of China and Their Fictional Writings, 1890-1914" (Doctoral diss., University of Glasgow, 2011)
- JSTOR 3015311– via JSTOR.
- ^ Chamberlain, Tim (6 July 2014). "Unexpected Encounters with the Past". Waymarks. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ^ "Paul H. King | Diaries as a commissioner in the Chinese Customs, with letterbooks, 1893-1920, 26 volumes". Sothebys. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
- ^ "Mr Paul King". The Times. 16 August 1938. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
- ^ "Probate Records, FO 917/3778". The National Archives, UK. 1938. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
External links
- Modern China and the Imperial Maritime Customs, Chihyun Chang (Department of History, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) & I-chun Fan (Center for Geographic Information Science, Academia Sinica)
- China Families, Chinese Maritime Customs Service, The University of Bristol
- The London Scottish Regiment Archived 2023-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, established 1859. Official archives Archived 2023-03-28 at the Wayback Machine
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