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

by Henrietta Harrison

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691225451
• ISBN13: 9780691225456
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"