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35.
       
Mark 2:3-5; Chin,
Shiliao,
79;
TR,
229; and Matthew 8:3; Chin,
Shiliao,
77, "upon the head" being
toushang; TR, 221.

36.
 
Luke 7:14-15; Chin,
Shiliao,
80;
TR,
230.

37.
  
1 Corinthians 15:49-53;
TR,
232; Chin,
Shiliao,
83.

38.
 
Acts 15:14-16;
TR,
231; Chin,
Shiliao,
81.

39.
       
Chin,
Shiliao,
75, partly following
TR,
225; Wu and Luo, "Yinshu," 283, point out the misprint in the original printing of
wang
(king) for
ju
(lord), and note that Chin Yii- fu mistakenly puts this passage under chap. 15 of Genesis.

40.
 
Chin,
Shiliao,
75-76, partly following
TR,
225.

41.
       
Hebrews 6:19-20. There is also a reference in Psalms 110:4, but Psalms was not printed in the Taiping Old Testament, which ended with Joshua.

42.
 
TR,
233, modified following Chin,
Shiliao,
84, and rendering "Hewang" as "Hong."

43.
 
TR,
236, slightly modified following Chin,
Shiliao,
86.

44.
 
TR,
235, modified following Chin,
Shiliao,
86.

45.
 
TR,
235, slightly modified following Chin,
Shiliao,
86.

46.
       
TR,
236; Chin,
Shiliao,
87. I understand Hong to be using the word
tai
in its two different senses here, first as "womb" and then as "fetus."

Chapter 21: Snowfall

1.
       
BPP/IUP, 250, Roberts letter of Jan. 22, 1862, Inclosure 6 in no. 44, Medhurst to Russell, Feb. 7, 1862; also printed in Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
314-15.

2.
 
NCH,
Sept. 7, 1861.

5. NCH,
Feb. 8, 1862;
DSCN,
Feb. 3, 1862, lists Roberts among passengers arriving in Shanghai on Feb. 2, aboard the
Willamette.
Roberts' follow-up letters and partial retrac­tions of the charges against Hong Rengan are in
NCH,
March 6, 1862, and
BPP /
IUP, 370—71. Lindley in
Ti-ping,
2:566—568 n, gives a blistering attack on Roberts' activities in Nanjing.

4.
       
BPP/
IUP, 235-36, C. Goverston statement to Vice-Consul Markham, Jan. 18, 1862, Shanghai, Inclosure 11 in no. 41, Medhurst to Russell, Jan. 23, 1862. Consul Medhurst had warned British subjects against such "ventures" on Jan. 14, 1862.
BPP /
IUP, 227.

5.
      
BPP
/ IUP, 232-37, Joseph Lambert statement to Vice-Consul Markham, Jan. 20, 1862, Inclosure 12 in no. 41, Medhurst to Russell, Jan. 23, 1862.

6.
       
BPP
/IUP, 231-32, Minutes of Special Meeting of Jan. 15, 1862, Shanghai, Inclosure 9 in no. 41;
NCH,
Feb. 1, 1862;
BPP/
IUP 256.

7.
 
BPP
/IUP 229, Minutes of Jan. 3, 1862, Inclosure 7 in no. 41.

8.
       
BPP
/ IUP, 233-34, Inclosure 9 in no. 41. The same meeting is covered in
NCH,
Jan. 25, 1862.

9.
 
NCH,
Feb. 1, 15, 1862.
BPP /
IUP, 256, Medhurst to Bruce, Feb. 4, 1862.

10.
       
Curwen,
Deposition,
130, on ice and snow; ibid, 138, 273, shows the lack of winter clothing later in 1862.

11.
 
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
518-21
.

12.
       
NCH,
March 2, 1861, by "A Native Christian," trans. Rev. W. G. E. Cunnyngham; and J. S. Burdon in Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
237-39.

13.
       
"Native Christian," in
NCH;
"H" [HughesJ, in
NCH,
March 2, March 23, April 6,
1861.

14.
       
BPP / IUP, 261; Yung,
My Life,
101. Yung Wing dates this sight to Nov. 1859, but since it is after the fall of Suzhou, and from other internal evidence, we can tell he means Nov. 1860.

15.
 
"Native Christian," in
NCH.

16.
 
Ibid.; Griffith John, in Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
231-32.

17.
 
J. L. Holmes, ibid, 230.

18. Wolseley,
Narrative,
350, also printed ibid., 335. A comprehensive analysis of the loss of life during this stage of the Taiping rebellion is in Ho,
Population,
236-42. Ibid., 274, gives the bleak analysis made by the scholar and Taiping captive Wang Shiduo.
\9.DSCN,
Feb. 3, 1862.

20.
 
BPP/WP,
239.

21.
 
Ibid., 238-41, Inclosure 2 in no. 42.

22.
                   
DSCN,
        Jan. 27, Feb. 24, 1862.

23.
 
PRO/FO 671/2, Gordon to Staveley, June 1862.

24.
 
DSCN,
March 27, 1862.

25.
 
BPP/
IUP, 392, Medhurst to Bruce, Shanghai, June 9, 1862.

26.
 
DSCN,
Aug. 15, 1862.

27.
 
DSCN,
Dec. 1, 1862.

28.
 
DSCN,
Feb. 21, 1862.

29.
 
DSCN,
March 11, 1862.

30.
 
DSCN,
May 30, July 7, 1862.
il.DSCN,
Aug. 8, 1862.

32.
 
DSCN,
Aug. 15, Sept. 26, 1862.

33.
       
All these lost dogs are sought by their owners in advertisements placed in
DSCN
between Oct. 2, 1862, and May 27, 1863.

34.
       
Katherine Bernhardt,
Rents, Taxes,
chap. 3, esp. pp. 106-9; Curwen,
Deposition,
133, 243 nn. 31-32.

35.
 
Cole,
Bao Lisheng,
esp. 26-29, 41-43.

36.
 
Curwen
, Deposition,
118, 124-25.

37.
 
BPP
/IUP, 288-89.

38.
 
Ibid, 116.

39.
 
Ibid, 115, 370.

40.
 
Forrest, "Ming Tombs,"
NCH,
July 6, 1861.

41.
 
SPP/ IUP, 170.

42.
       
Edkins, "Narrative," 291; Jane Edkins,
Chinese Scenes,
201, 204. Her letters show the decision as much more debated by them and difficult than her husband suggests in his "Narrative."

43.
       
W. Lobschied, whose visit and letter to the Hong Kong "Daily Press" are given in Lin-le,
Ti-ping,
2:598-603.

44.
 
TR,
1527.

45.
 
TR,
1513.

46.
       
Growing out of the
Daily Shipping News,
the
DSCN
was first published in 1862. See King and Clarke,
Guide,
77, 177.

47.
       
The Shanghai xinbao,
as announced in
DSCN,
Sept. 26, 1862. Shanghai's earlier com­mercial history and periods of prosperity are well described in Linda Cooke Johnson, "Shanghai."

48.
 
R. E. Johnson,
China Station,
109-13.

49.
 
BPP
/IUP 392, Medhurst to Bruce, Shanghai, June 9, 1862.

50.
 
DSCN,
Dec. 1, 1862, April 10, 1863.

51.
 
DSCN,
June 3, 1863;
NCH,
July 4, 1863.

52.
 
DSCN,
Nov. 22, 1862.

53.
 
DSCN,
May 26, 1863, Sept. 26, 1862.

54.
 
DSCN,
Dec. 1, 1862.

55.
       
Fogg in
DSCN,
Jan. 8, 1863, and photo stores in
DSCN,
Jan. 27, 1862, Feb. 21, 1862, June 3, 1862. The shops were J. Newman and C. & W. Saunders.

56.
 
Risley,
DSCN,
Sept. 26, 1862; racehorses,
DSCN,
Feb. 14, May 29, 1863.

57.
 
PRO/FO 97/111, cases 252, 327, 120, and 328.

58.
       
PRO/FO 17/405, cases 30, 63, and 106, and PRO/FO 97/111, case 346, for the assault on Susan Cheshire.

59.
                   
DSCN,
        Feb. 28, 1862;
NCH,
March 15, 1862, June 23, 1864.

60.
       
Licenses,
DSCN,
Dec. 1, 1862; Mason,
DSCN,
May 30, 1863; Hayden, PRO/FO 17/ 405, case 112.

61.
       
PRO/FO 97/111, passim, and cases 314, 321, and 344, for the dramatic repeat offenders. For an astonishing case of police abuse to some Shanghai "gentlemen" who are beaten and rolled in the mud see
DSCN,
May 20, May 21, 1863.

62.
 
DSCN,
Feb. 18, 1863.

63.
 
PRO / FO 97/111, cases 17, 55, and 202.

64.
 
BPP
/ IUP, 424, Bruce to Russell, July 14, 1862.

65.
 
DSCN,
Feb. 23, 1863.

66.
 
BPP / IUP, 521, Staveley to Bruce, Shanghai, Nov. 13, 1862, Inclosure 3 in no. 103.

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