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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069122546X
• ISBN13: 9780691225463
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"