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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire 

by Henrietta Harrison

An impressive new history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two language interpreters who participated in the famed Macartney embassy in 1793 The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East’s disinter

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9780691225456