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Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences, during the British Embassy to Pekin, in 1816 (Paperback)
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Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences, during the British Embassy to Pekin, in 1816 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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Sir George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859), Sinologist and politician,
was a key figure in Anglo-Chinese relations, as had been his
father. In 1798 he began working for the British East India Company
in Canton (Guangzhou), where he was the only Englishman who could
understand Chinese, having begun learning it as a child. By 1815,
British trade with China was worth over GBP4 million in tea duties
alone, and there was immense pressure for the Chinese to relax
their restrictions. In 1816, following earlier failed missions, an
embassy, including Staunton as second commissioner, was organised
to seek better trading conditions and to press the emperor for the
opening up of a second harbour. Chinese mistrust and British
arrogance led to the failure of the embassy, with no imperial
audience given. This account, privately published in 1824, is a
valuable document in the understanding of the historical background
to Britain's relationship with China into the twentieth century.
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