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Alain Peyrefitte 36858 - The collision of two civilisations. The British expedition to China in 1792-4

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Harvill, 1993. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 630. This is the story of a failed attempt by the British, in 1793, to open the Chinese Empire to Western trade. Led by Lord Macartney, whose distinguished diplomatic posts included India and the Caribbean, the enormous British expedition of nearly 700 men included doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers and young aristocrats, and lasted more than two years, and its success would have redefined the history of the 19th and 20th centuries. The author has made use of a variety of sources, including, on the British side, the diary of the 12-year-old Thomas Stanton, son of Macartney's deputy, who was the only person in the whole English fleet who spoke Chinese, and, on the Chinese side, the newly discovered secret reports of the Emperor's officials, all annotated by the Emperor himself. ISBN: 9780002726771. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
EUR 15.00 [Appr.: US$ 16.27 | £UK 13 | JP¥ 2560] Book number 2188646

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