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

The Perils of Interpreting : : The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire / / Henrietta Harrison.

An impressive new history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two language interpreters who participated in the famed Macartney embassy in 1793The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Harrison, Henrietta,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 1 map. 36 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dramatis Personae
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Lives That Crossed the World
  • Chapter 1. The Li Family of Liangzhou
  • Chapter 2. George Leonard Staunton of Galway
  • Chapter 3. Li Zibiao’s Education in Naples
  • Chapter 4. George Thomas Staunton’s Peculiar Childhood
  • Part II. Li Zibiao and Lord Macartney’s Embassy
  • Chapter 5. Finding an Interpreter for an Embassy to China
  • Chapter 6. Crossing the Oceans
  • Chapter 7. Other Possible Interpreters
  • Chapter 8. Li Zibiao as Interpreter and Mediator
  • Chapter 9. Speaking to the Emperor
  • Chapter 10. Becoming an Invisible Interpreter
  • Chapter 11. Li Zibiao after the Embassy
  • Part III. George Thomas Staunton and the Canton Trade
  • Chapter 12. George Thomas Staunton Becomes an Interpreter
  • Chapter 13. Sir George Staunton, Translator and Banker
  • Chapter 14. The British Occupation of Macao and Its Aftermath
  • Chapter 15. A Linguist and His Troubles
  • Chapter 16. The Amherst Embassy
  • Part IV. Exclusion
  • Chapter 17. Li Zibiao’s Last Years in Hiding
  • Chapter 18. Staunton in Parliament
  • Chapter 19. The Opium War
  • Chapter 20. Forgetting
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index
  • A Note on the Type

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