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 1: Early Encounters, 1798-1824 General Introduction S Holmes, The Journal of Mr Samuel Holmes (1798); G Wilkinson, Sketches of Chinese Customs & Manners (1814); G T Staunton, Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences during the British Embassy to Peking in 1816 (1824)
