Student Essays
The Cornelius Gold journal is a valuable document for highlighting aspects of East-West relations in the 19th century through the eyes of a young man from western Connecticut. Students from the Connecticut College's History/East Asian Studies course "Empire and Expansion in East Asia, 1840-1950s" identified and researched some of these issues in the brief essays below - click on a link to learn more.
Maury’s Nautical Contributions and Influences on the Eventual Opening of Japan
Delano’s Dealings: The Opium Trade and the Making of a Presidential Legacy
Segregations and Interactions of Chinese and Westerners in British Hong Kong
The Civil War: A Conflict of International Diplomacy
Foreign Tourism in Hong Kong & Canton in the Late 19th Century
Translation of Christian Texts in Nineteenth-Century China
Efforts of the ABCFM in 19th Century China
Influence Through the American Consulate in 19th-20th Century China
International Banking in Hong Kong in the 1860s
American Merchants in China 1860s
Crew Composition of Western Merchant Vessels in the 1860s
U.S. Extraterritoriality in East Asia
American Trade with China in the 1860s
American Missionaries in China in the 1860s
Currency in the 19th Century International Trade: The Importance of Mexican Silver
Western Views on Asian Women in the 1860s
Chinese-Britain trade relations in the 1860s