Author: Sir George Thomas StauntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences During the British Embassy to Pekin in 1816
Author: Sir George Thomas StauntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences During the British Embassy to Pekin in 1816. For Private Circulation Only
Author: George Thomas StauntonNotes of Proceedings and Occurrences, During the British Embassy to Pekin, in 1816
Author: Sir George Thomas StauntonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781139506526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Notes of Proceedings and Occurences During the British Embassy to Pekin in 1816 [by George Thomas Staunton].
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Author: Sir George Thomas StauntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Notes of Proceedings During the British Embassy to Pekin in 1816
Author: George Thomas Staunton (Sinologe, Diplomat)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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.
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library. Additions from 1843-1852. An index of subjects. An index of authors and books
Author: London Institution. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War
Author: Xin LiuPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000637565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I’s first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston’s letter to the Minister of China in 1840. Starting with Queen Elizabeth I’s letter to the Chinese Emperor and ending with the letter from Lord Palmerston to the Minister of China just before the Opium War, this book explores the long journey in between from cultural diplomacy to gunboat diplomacy. It interweaves the most known diplomatic efforts at the official level with the much unknown intellectual interactions at the people-to-people level, from missionaries to scholars, from merchants to travelers and from artists to scientists. This book adopts a novel "mirror" approach by pairing and comparing people, texts, commodities, artworks, architecture, ideologies, operating systems and world views of the two empires. Using letters, gifts and traded goods as fulcrums, and by adopting these unique lenses, it puts China into the world history narratives to contextualise Anglo-Chinese relations, thus providing a fresh analysis of the surviving evidence. Xin Liu casts a new light on understanding the Sino-centric and Anglo-centric world views in driving the complex relations between the two empires, and the reversals of power shifts that are still unfolding today. The book is not intended for specialists in history, but a general audience wishing to learn more about China’s historical engagement with the world.
A catalogue of the library of the London institution [by W. Upcott, R. Thomson and E.W. Brayley].
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Author: William UpcottCatalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr. G. E. Morrison, Now a Part of the Oriental Library, Tokyo, Japan: English books
Author: Tōyō Bunko (Japan)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description