Abstract
Abstract Chinese piracy presented numerous problems for the Qing and British empires in Chinese waters, but cooperation against pirates was rare before 1842. The colonization of Hong Kong and other treaty arrangements after the Opium War enabled the British to take more vigorous action against Chinese pirates. Although such actions impinged on China’s maritime sovereignty and jurisdiction, Qing officials quickly recognized the efficacy of British naval forces in suppressing piracy. Hong Kong and Kowloon developed a system of cooperation for the suppression of piracy. This system was replicated elsewhere along the coast of Guangdong and beyond. By receiving captured pirates from the Royal Navy, Qing officials effectively used an important tool of British imperialism as a means of enforcing and extending their own authority. At the same time, cooperation became a means for the Qing to engage with emerging international law.
Highlights
Piracy has been a problem along the China coast since ancient times and became problematic on the coast of Guangdong from the late eighteenth century onwards
Qing authorities captured Chui Apo the following year in Canton.51. True to his acceptance of British jurisdiction over Chinese pirates, Xu had Chui sent to Hong Kong for trial; Chui was convicted of manslaughter but committed suicide in prison before his sentence of transportation for life could be carried out (Norton-Kyshe 1898, 297–298)
When a member of the Cantonese gentry claimed to recognize a pirate among the crew of the Hong Kong-registered lorcha Arrow, Qing authorities proceeded, on 8 October 1856, to arrest the crew in waters near Canton
Summary
Piracy has been a problem along the China coast since ancient times and became problematic on the coast of Guangdong from the late eighteenth century onwards.
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