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

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

Henrietta Harrison

312 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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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...

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