The Last Embassy : The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China /

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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 centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Andrade, Tonio (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
China-Foreign relations-Netherlands.
China-History-Qianlong, 1736-1795.
Netherlands-Foreign relations-1714-1795.
Netherlands-Foreign relations-China.
HISTORY / Asia / China.
A. E. van Braam Houckgeest.
Beijing.
East India Company.
Isaac Titsingh.
Macartney embassy.
Macartney mission.
Netherlands.
Old Summer Palace.
Qianlong Court.
Qianlong Emperor.
Summer Palace.
Titsingh and van Braam.
Titsingh embassy.
Titsingh mission.
diplomacy.
diplomatic history.
diplomatic missions to China.
early modern history.
history of diplomacy.
international relations.
kowtow.
military history.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • A Note to the Reader
  • Prologue: A Clash of Cultures?
  • Chapter 1 The Center
  • Chapter 2 The Amateur
  • Chapter 3 Man Proposes, God Disposes
  • Chapter 4 The Delta
  • Chapter 5 Canton
  • Chapter 6 A Dreadful Prospect
  • chapter 7 The Imperial Way
  • Chapter 8 A Walk into Winter
  • Chapter 9 Beijing
  • Chapter 10 Ice Games
  • Chapter 11 Favored Guests of the Emperor
  • Chapter 12 A New Year
  • Chapter 13 The Purple Ray Pavilion, A Good Death, A Tour of Temples
  • Chapter 14 Stately Pleasure Gardens
  • Chapter 15 The Lantern Festival
  • Chapter 16 Goodbye, Beijing
  • Chapter 17 By Land through Beizhili and Shandong
  • Chapter 18 Sailing into Spring
  • Chapter 19 Zhejiang and Jiangxi
  • Chapter 20 An Uncertain Future
  • Conclusions: A Contested Embassy and the History of Sino-Western Relations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Place Names, Transliterations, Terms, and Sources
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A note on the type

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