Britain's Second Embassy to China : : Lord Amherst's 'Special Mission' to the Jiaqing Emperor In 1816.

• Author: Stevenson, Caroline.
• Place / Publishing House: Canberra : : ANU Press,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 pages)

Lord Amherst's diplomatic mission to the Qing Court in 1816 was the second British embassy to China. The first led by Lord Macartney in 1793 had failed to achieve its goals. It was thought that Amherst had better prospects of success, but the intense diplomatic encounter that greeted his arriva...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Acknowledgements
• Note on Terminology and Romanisation and Monetary Values
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Political Setting of the Amherst Embassy
• 3. Origins of the Amherst Embassy: Canton and Sir George Thomas Staunton
• 4. The View from London: John Barrow and Lord William Pitt Amherst
• 5. Amherst's Preparations for the Embassy
• 6. The Voyage from Portsmouth to 'Hong Kong'
• 7. Up the Coast of China and Arrival at Tianjin
• 8. The Imperial Banquet of 13 August 1816 and Progress to Tongzhou
• 9. To Yuanmingyuan, Reception and Dismissal
• 10. Overland to Canton: The British Cultural Encounter with China
• 11. Aftermath: Britain's Reaction to the Failure of the Amherst Embassy
• 12. Retrospect: Reflections on the Amherst Embassy
• Bibliography
• Appendix A: List of Persons and Their Salaries
• Appendix B: Presents and Cost of the Amherst Embassy
• Appendix C: The Total Cost of the Amherst Embassy
• Appendix D: Ball's Secret Report (Commissioner of Teas at Canton)
• Appendix E: List of Chinese Officials Responsible for the Conduct of the Amherst Embassy
• Appendix F: Imperial Edict: 'Ceremonies to Be Observed at the Audience of Leave'
• Appendix G: Substance of an Edict Seen on the Walls of a Building in the 8th Moon of the 21st Year of Kia King
• Appendix H: Itinerary of the Amherst Embassy
• Appendix I: Morrison's Letters to Amherst (1821)
• Index.