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From Homer to Jane Austen, storytellers have entertained their audiences with tales of women in disputes, as parties and peacemakers. This is our attempt to write their history, relying as far as possible on primary sources, documents which have survived by chance, never intended for our eyes by those who created and preserved them.

Describes the taking of Hong Kong in 1841 from the angle of the man responsible, Charles Elliot, and his wife Clara. The text argues that Elliot was a man of intelligence, conscience and humanitarian instincts, and undeserving of the vilification he received from the Chinese.

Relations between Britain and China have been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong on 26th January 1841. The man responsible - Britain's Plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot - was recalled by his government in disgrace and has also been vilified by China. This book describes the taking of Hong Kong from Elliot's point of view.