Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An Historical Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China
Author: An historical account of the embassy to the emperor of China, abridged principally from the papers of earl Macartney
Author: sir George Leonard Staunton (1st bart.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
An Historical Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China, Abridged Principally from the Papers of Earl Macartney
Author: George Leonard StauntonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781375616010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
An Historical Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China, Undertaken by Order of the King of Great Britain
Author: Sir George StauntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
An historical account of the embassy to the Emperor of China ..., abridged principally from the papers of Earl Macartney, as compiled by Sir G. Staunton ..., with ... plates
Author: Sir George Leonard STAUNTONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Trübner's Bibliographical Catalogues
Author: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & CoPublisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Britain’s Second Embassy to China
Author: Caroline StevensonPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Lord Amherst’s diplomatic mission to the Qing Court in 1816 was the second British embassy to China. The first led by Lord Macartney in 1793 had failed to achieve its goals. It was thought that Amherst had better prospects of success, but the intense diplomatic encounter that greeted his arrival ended badly. Amherst never appeared before the Jiaqing emperor and his embassy was expelled from Peking on the day it arrived. Historians have blamed Amherst for this outcome, citing his over-reliance on the advice of his Second Commissioner, Sir George Thomas Staunton, not to kowtow before the emperor. Detailed analysis of British sources reveal that Amherst was well informed on the kowtow issue and made his own decision for which he took full responsibility. Success was always unlikely because of irreconcilable differences in approach. China’s conduct of foreign relations based on the tributary system required submission to the emperor, thus relegating all foreign emissaries and the rulers they represented to vassal status, whereas British diplomatic practice was centred on negotiation and Westphalian principles of equality between nations. The Amherst embassy’s failure revised British assessments of China and led some observers to believe that force, rather than diplomacy, might be required in future to achieve British goals. The Opium War of 1840 that followed set a precedent for foreign interference in China, resulting in a century of ‘humiliation’. This resonates today in President Xi Jinping’s call for ‘National Rejuvenation’ to restore China’s historic place at the centre of a new Sino-centric global order.
Small Things in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Chloe Wigston SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108999069
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Offering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delight and entertain, generating tactile pleasures for users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body's adeptness or the hand's dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking mobility of small things: how fans, coins, rings, and pottery could, for instance, carry political, philosophical, and cultural concepts into circumscribed spaces. From the decorative and playful to the useful and performative, such small things as tea caddies, wampum beads, and drawings of ants negotiated larger political, cultural, and scientific shifts as they transported aesthetic and cultural practices across borders, via nationalist imagery, gift exchange, and the movement of global goods.