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Barrow's Travels in China - An Investigation into the Origin and Authenticity of the 'Facts and Observations' Related in a Work Entitled 'Travels in China by John Barrow, F.R.S.' (Paperback)
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Barrow's Travels in China - An Investigation into the Origin and Authenticity of the 'Facts and Observations' Related in a Work Entitled 'Travels in China by John Barrow, F.R.S.' (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
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William Jardine Proudfoot (c.1804 1887) published his critique of
Sir John Barrow's Travels in China (1804; also reissued in this
series) with the agenda of exposing the latter as unreliable and
unjust. Barrow had accompanied Lord Macartney on the first British
mission to the Chinese Imperial Court (1792 4), in a party that
also included the official astronomer, Dr James Dinwiddie,
Proudfoot's grandfather. Comparing Barrow's account to that found
in other records, Proudfoot concludes that the earlier work was 'a
great humbug', ascribing to Barrow the 'powerful motive' of
self-promotion. In a work full of vitriol against its subject,
Proudfoot's concern is to honour the memory of the mission's
members, whom he felt Barrow belittled and vilified, and also to
point out factual inaccuracies, accusing him of seeking amusement
rather than truth in his anecdotes. Read alongside Barrow's work,
it makes for an interesting, scornful, and often entertaining
counter.
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