An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, Including Cursory Observations Made and Information Obtained in Travelling Through that Ancient Empire and a Small Part of Chinese Tartary, Together with a Relation of the Voyage Undertaken on the Occasion by His Majesty's Ship "the Lion"... Taken Chiefly from the Papers Of... the Earl of Macartney... by Sir George Staunton,... PDF Download
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Author: Georges Staunton
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Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Author: Georges Staunton
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Pages : 662
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Author: Sir George Staunton
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Author: George Leonard Staunton
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Author: Sir George Staunton
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Author: Caroline Stevenson
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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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.
Author: Earl George Macartney Macartney
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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Author: George Macartney Macartney
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Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Author: Sir George Leonard STAUNTON
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Author: James Louis Hevia
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822316374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time--the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion was the mission of Lord Macartney, sent by the British crown and sponsored by the East India Company, to the court of the Qianlong emperor. Cherishing Men from Afar looks at the initial confrontation between these two empires from a historical perspective informed by the insights of contemporary postcolonial criticism and cultural studies. The history of this encounter, like that of most colonial and imperial encounters, has traditionally been told from the Europeans' point of view. In this book, James L. Hevia consults Chinese sources--many previously untranslated--for a broader sense of what Qing court officials understood; and considers these documents in light of a sophisticated anthropological understanding of Qing ritual processes and expectations. He also reexamines the more familiar British accounts in the context of recent critiques of orientalism and work on the development of the bourgeois subject. Hevia's reading of these sources reveals the logics of two discrete imperial formations, not so much impaired by the cultural misunderstandings that have historically been attributed to their meeting, but animated by differing ideas about constructing relations of sovereignty and power. His examination of Chinese and English-language scholarly treatments of this event, both historical and contemporary, sheds new light on the place of the Macartney mission in the dynamics of colonial and imperial encounters.
Author: Sir George Staunton
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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