Embassies To China

Author : J E Hoare
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136796177
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embassies in the East written by J E Hoare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text traces the history of three Far Eastern embassies through the vicissitudes of war and revolution against the background of an apparent steady decline of Western influence in Asia. Dr Hoare tracks the key events and people shaping the British view of Asia. Key 'dramatis personae' are Sir Harry Parkes, British Minister to Japan, China and Korea; Sir Ernest Satow, the student interpreter who became Minister in Tokyo and Peking, and in more recent years, Sir Charles Eliot, lover of big cars and scholar of Buddhism. This book will interest those wishing to know more about all aspects of Britain in East Asia, whether in the tense years of the Boxer troubles in China, during the wartime repatriation of Britons from Japan and the Japanese Empire, in the traumas of the Korean War, or during the excess of China's Cultural Revolution.

Author : Aeneas Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Narrative of the British Embassy to China written by Aeneas Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Earl George Macartney Macartney
Publisher : Scholarly Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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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 : Caroline Stevenson
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760464090
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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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 : J. D. Frodsham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Chinese Embassy to the West written by J. D. Frodsham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1974 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Keevak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811039720
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embassies to China written by Michael Keevak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China. Considering differing notions of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy as touchstones in the relations between China and Europe on mutuality, the book examines five encounters with France, Portugal, Holland, the pope, and Russia between 1248 and 1720, and reflects on concepts that the West took for granted but which did not successfully cross over into the Chinese world. This cutting edge text provides key insights into the cultural and political conflict which lay at the heart of early Chinese-European relations, as the West's understanding of the truth and appropriateness of its cultural norms was confronted by China's norms and beliefs.

Author : William Woodville Rockhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diplomatic Audiences at the Court of China written by William Woodville Rockhill and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Earl George Macartney Macartney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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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 : George Macartney Macartney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China written by George Macartney Macartney and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shawn Dorman
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612344674
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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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.