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Kowtow - Georgian Britain, Imperial China and the Irishman Who Introduced Them (Hardcover)
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Kowtow - Georgian Britain, Imperial China and the Irishman Who Introduced Them (Hardcover)
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In 1793, George Macartney introduced two of the leading empires of
his age, and set off one of the greatest power shifts in history.
'Kowtow: Georgian Britain, Imperial China and the Irishman who
Introduced Them' tells the story of Macartney, Britain's first
Ambassador to China, and his career that spanned the globe, from
the Caribbean to India, from Brazil to Indonesia, and then finally
through China to Peking. Kowtow explains why Macartney's embassy
was needed, and examines the nature and personalities of the
Ambassador and his imperial host, the Emperor Qianlong. The reader
will journey with Macartney across the world into Peking's Summer
Palace, before crossing over the Great Wall to Qianlong's summer
hunting grounds in Rehe. The story of the Macartney mission
provides significant lessons for modern diplomatic engagements and
trade relations, and still causes great reverberations today. As a
result, his mission represents one of the major missed
opportunities in history and the challenges faced by Macartney
still finds echoes in relations between China and the West.
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