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Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart., Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford - One of the King's Commissioners to the Court of Pekin, and Afterwards for Some Time Member of Parliament for South Hampshire (Paperback)
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Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart., Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford - One of the King's Commissioners to the Court of Pekin, and Afterwards for Some Time Member of Parliament for South Hampshire (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
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Sir George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859), sinologist and politician,
was a key figure in early nineteenth-century Anglo-Chinese
relations. Staunton secured a post as a writer in the East India
Company's factory in Canton in 1798 and was the only Englishman at
the factory to study Chinese. He translated China's penal code and
was promoted to chief of the Canton factory in 1816. He was a
member of Britain's Amherst embassy to Peking in 1816-1817 to
protest against mandarins' treatment of Canton merchants. The
embassy failed to obtain an imperial interview but, despite being
threatened with detention by the Chinese, Staunton insisted that
the British should not submit to the emperor. Staunton returned to
England in 1817, and served as a Tory MP between 1818 and 1852.
Staunton's Memoirs, which were printed privately in 1856, provide a
unique insight into nineteenth-century British perceptions of
China.
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