Aeneas Anderson in China: A Narrative Of The Ill-fated Macartney Embassy 1792-94 by Frances Wood

Aeneas Anderson in China: A Narrative Of The Ill-fated Macartney Embassy 1792-94

Frances Wood

356 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

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Lord Macartney’s mission to open up China in 1792 failed, but it did give the Western world its first glimpse of the secretive Middle Kingdom through the memoirs written by eight different members of the embassy. The most lively and accessible of ...

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