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024 7    |a MS 380715 |2 SOAS manuscript number
040        |a UkLSOA |c UkLSOA
245 00 |a Entrance of house, Strawbraid Godown, Chefoo |h [electronic resource] |b since pulled down |y English.
246 3    |a Photograph of the entrance of house, Strawbraid Godown, Chefoo.
260        |a [S.l.] : |b [unpublished photograph], |c [prior to 1898].
500        |a A godown is a warehouse. The word was in common use in India and other parts of Asia. It derives from the Portuguese word gudão, itself a derivation from the Tamil word kiṭaṅku, Malayalam kiṭaṅṅu, or Kannada gadaṅgu - all meaning a warehouse or store house
500        |a Strawbraid (or straw braid; also known as straw plaiting) is a straw plaiting method by which straw is braided for use in textile manufacturing.
500        |a For reference to the strawbraid trade, see: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Diplomatic and consular reports. China : Report for the year 1898 on the trade of Chefoo. (London : Harrison & Sons, 1898)
500        |a Yantai, previously known as Chefoo, is located in present day (2020) Shandong province
500        |a Chefoo was designated a treaty port by Treaty of Tientsin 1858
500        |a Thomas Tierney Fergusson founded the trading firm of Fergusson & Co in 1861 following the establishment of a treaty port at Chefoo [Yantai]. Until 1889 he traded alone but then went into partnership with John Pender Wake. According to Frances Wood, author of No dogs and not many Chinese: Treaty port life in China 1843-1943 , "Chefoo was never much of a trading port, with only four foreign trading firms (three of them British) active in 1891, shipping beancake, vermicelli, peanuts, silks, hairnets, lace and fruits." During his time in Chefoo Fergusson was a staunch supporter of the Catholic St Mary's Church and of the Catholic Mission there. Fergusson went on leave to England in 1889, dying there unexpectedly, on 22nd November 1890. The firm Fergusson & Co continued under new ownership for a number of years but Fergusson's property was managed through agents in China, first by his widow, Anna Fergusson and, after her death, in 1908 by his daughter Anne Marie Madeleine, wife of Admiral Sir Charles Henry Coke. During Lady Coke's life the property was sold off in various lots, the last being sold in 1940.
533        |a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS University of London, |c Special Collections, |d 2020. |f (SOAS Digital Collections) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software.
535 1    |a Special Collections.
650        |a 亞洲 -- 中國 -- 山東省 -- 煙台市.
650        |a 亚洲 -- 中国 -- 山东省 -- 烟台市.
720 1    |a [Fergusson, Thomas Tierney, 1818-1891]. |4 pht
720 1    |a [Fergusson, Thomas Tierney (fl 1861), trader]. |4 ctb
752        |a China |b Shandong |d Yantai.
830    0 |a SOAS Digital Collections.
830    0 |a Religions.
830    0 |a China Collection.
830    0 |a Fergusson & Co., Chefoo, China -- MS 380715.
852        |a GBR |b SDC |c Religions
856 40 |u https://digital.soas.ac.uk/ATF0000008/00001 |y Electronic Resource
992 04 |a http://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/AT/F0/00/00/08/00001/00001thm.jpg
997        |a Religions


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