Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • A multitude of lords : the Qing Empire, Manchu rulership, and interdomainal relations
  • Planning and organizing the British embassy
  • King Solomon in all his glory : the British embassy in China
  • Guest ritual and interdomainal relations
  • Channeling along a centering path : greeting and preparation
  • Convergence : audience, instruction, and bestowal
  • Bringing affairs to a culmination
  • Guest ritual and diplomacy
  • From events to history : the Macartney embassy in the historiography of Sino-Western relations.