Ritual & diplomacy: The Macartney Mission to China, 1792-1794 : papers presented at the 1992 conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies ... bicentenary of the Macartney Mission to China 0948454199, 9780948454196

Art, Science, and Diplomacy: A Study of the Visual Images of the Macartney Embassy to China, 1793 9819911591, 9789819911592

This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they

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China Tangle: The American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission 9781400868278

Contents: Foreword. Part One: From Pearl Harbor to the Cairo Conference. Part Two: From the Cairo Conference to the Surr

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Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724 9780674028814

It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for th

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Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga 9781479844524

Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicl

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Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 9780822396284

In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time—the Manchu or Qing dynasty

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Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 0822316374, 9780822316374

In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time—the Manchu or Qing dynasty

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Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao's China 9780199541935, 2010933105, 0199541930

In 1954, eighteen years before Nixon's momentous visit to China, scores of European delegations set off for Beijing

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Mission to the Volga 9781479826698

The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneeri

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The Chinese and the Christian Mission

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China Mission 9780807152805, 9780807152799, 9780807152812, 2013008352

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