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Paperback The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire Book
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ISBN: 069122546X

ISBN13: 9780691225463

The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire

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A fascinating history of China's relations with the West--told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators

The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's lack of interest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously...

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