The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by Henrietta Harrison, Henrietta Harrison
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
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Henrietta Harrison, Henrietta Harrison
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire

Henrietta Harrison, Henrietta Harrison

360 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative mysterious medium-paced
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An impressive new history of China's relations with the West--told through the lives of two language interpreters who participated in the famed Macartney embassy in 1793The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraugh...

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