Henrietta Harrison
Broschiertes Buch

The Perils of Interpreting

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

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A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's lack of interest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney's two interpreters at that meeting-Li Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton. Who were these two men? How did they intervene in ...