The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire Harrison Henrietta
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire Harrison Henrietta A fascinating history of China's relations with the West--told…
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire Harrison Henrietta
A fascinating history of China's relations with the West--told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 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. Who were these two men? In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney's two interpreters at that meeting--Li Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton.
And what did these exchanges mean for them? How did they intervene in the exchanges that they mediated? From Galway to Chengde, and from political intrigues to personal encounters, Harrison reassesses a pivotal moment in relations between China and Britain.
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