Chinese Courage

Charles Gützlaff

The Unionist 1833-09-05

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CHINESE COURAGE. While advancing towards Fuh-chow, the capital of Fuh-keen province, we meet several war-junks, despatched, doubtless, in quest of us. We happened to direct our spy-glass towards one of them, which so intimidated the crew, that they ran below decks, and did not reappear till they were sure of having escaped the danger. We could only ascribe their panic to mistaking the class for a gun, which they supposed pointed at them.— Gutzlaff’s Voyage

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As with much travel writing at this time, Gützlaff's tone is patronizing and laced with Euro-centric perspectives. Some of Gützlaff's book is available online - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucw.ark:/13960/t1rf6c42z&view=1up&seq=5

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Title: Chinese Courage
Description: Perspicacity of responding to perceived risk by hiding
Bibliographic Citation: The Unionist 1833-09-05
Creator: Charles Gützlaff
Bibliographic Citation Republished: Charles Gützlaff, Journal of a Residence in Siam and of a Voyage along the Coast of China to Mantchou Tartary Canton, China: 1832
Full Issue Sequence Number: 1833-09-05 p01.09
Type: Text
Language: English
Publisher: The Unionist
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Subject: Foreign News; Miscellaneous Filler
Source: The Unionist
Original Item: sjsu-library.github.io
Identifier: unionist--text-0083
Category: Unionist content
Issue: 6
Related People: Charles Gützlaff
Related image: unionist--image-0156