| #1375565 in Books | 2013-05-21 | 2013-05-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.98 x1.45 x5.20l,1.39 | File Name: 0345803957 | 688 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Chinese History, written as it happened|By xingren|Macartney's journals were published, at least in part, many years ago, as were those of others of his retinue. There are academic analyses, the most prominent probably that of Cranmer-Byngg. There have been many studies of the decline of the Qing dynasty. But this is the first work I have encountered that tells the parallel ta|From Publishers Weekly|French historian Peyrefitte's extraordinary account of the members of the British expedition that tried, unsuccessfully, to open China to Western trade in 1793 is at once a marvelous adventure tale, a dramatic reenactment of a decisive co
In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see eye to eye, and the trade talks failed. The inability to develop a trade relation would have enormous con...
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