Description
In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.
Table of Contents
Volume 3: Expanding Frontiers, 1866-1877 N B Dennys, Notes for Tourists in the North of China (1866); J Dinwiddie, Biographical Memoir of James Dinwiddie (1868); R Swinhoe, Reports by Consul Swinhoe of His Special Mission up the River Yang-tsze-kiang (1870); A R Margary, Notes of a Journey from Hankow to Ta-li-Fu (1875); Anon, Guide for Tourists to Peking and its Environs (1876); N Elias, A Visit to the Valley of the Shueli, in Western Yunnan (1877)
