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

Posted By: roxul
Date: 9 Aug 2022 07:46:51
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire

The Perils of Interpreting Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire"
English | ISBN: 0691225451 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 22 MB

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 disinterest in the West. In



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