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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Andrade, Tonio,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 26 b/w illus. 6 maps.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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