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Author : Earl George Macartney Macartney
Publisher : Scholarly Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
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Download or read book An Embassy to China written by Earl George Macartney Macartney and published by Scholarly Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Leonard Staunton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China written by George Leonard Staunton and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Stevenson
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760464090
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Britain’s Second Embassy to China written by Caroline Stevenson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book An Embassy to China written by Earl George Macartney Macartney and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aeneas Anderson
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Narrative of the British Embassy to China in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794 written by Aeneas Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News of Lord Macartney's embassy, the first British diplomatic mission to China, caused much excitement in Britain. Publishers were naturally keen to rush accounts into print as soon as possible and the present narrative, by Macartney's valet, was the first book describing the embassy to appear. It went through several editions, indicative of widespread popular interest, even if scholars and other writers consider that it lacks the gravitas of the authorised account published by Staunton in 1797, three years after the embassy's return.
Author : Helen H. Robbins
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Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our First Ambassador to China written by Helen H. Robbins and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir George Staunton
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Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China written by Sir George Staunton and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tonio Andrade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219885
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Embassy written by Tonio Andrade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily dismissed by the Qing court, Macartney failed in nearly all of his objectives, perhaps setting the stage for the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and the mistrust that still marks the relationship today. But not all European encounters with China were disastrous. The Last Embassy tells the story of the Dutch mission of 1795, bringing to light a dramatic but little-known episode that transforms our understanding of the history of China and the West. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Tonio Andrade paints a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of an age marked by intrigues and war. China was on the brink of rebellion. In Europe, French armies were invading Holland. Enduring a harrowing voyage, the Dutch mission was to be the last European diplomatic delegation ever received in the traditional Chinese court. Andrade shows how, in contrast to the British emissaries, the Dutch were men with deep knowledge of Asia who respected regional diplomatic norms and were committed to understanding China on its own terms. Beautifully illustrated with sketches and paintings by Chinese and European artists, The Last Embassy suggests that the Qing court, often mischaracterized as arrogant and narrow-minded, was in fact open, flexible, curious, and cosmopolitan.
Author : Shawn Dorman
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612344674
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Inside a U.S. Embassy written by Shawn Dorman and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside a U.S. Embassy is widely recognized as the essential guide to the Foreign Service. This all-new third edition takes readers to more than fifty U.S. missions around the world, introducing Foreign Service professionals and providing detailed descriptions of their jobs and firsthand accounts of diplomacy in action. In addition to profiles of diplomats and specialists around the world-from the ambassador to the consular officer, the public diplomacy officer to the security specialist-is a selection from more than twenty countries of day-in-the-life accounts, each describing an actual day on.
Author : Sir George Staunton
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China written by Sir George Staunton and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
