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Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations

Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations

Kitson, Peter J.
Markley, Robert
Chang, Elizabeth Hope

Hardcover

Series: Essays and Studies, Book 69

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1843844451
ISBN13: 9781843844457
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: Jul 21 2016
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.

On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to attend an immediate audience with the Jiaqing Emperor at the Summer Palace of Yuanming Yuan. Fatigued and separated from his diplomatic credentials and ambassadorial robes, Amherst resisted, and left the palace in anger. The emperor, believing he had been insulted, dismissed the embassy without granting it animperial audience and rejected its tribute of gifts. This diplomatic incident caused considerable disquiet at the time.

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