Title The collision of two civilisations : the British expedition to China in 1792-4 / Alain Peyrefitte ; translated from the French by Jon Rothschild

Published London : Harvill, 1993 ©1989 ©1992

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Description xxxiii, 630 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Contents I: THE JOURNEY TO CHINA -- 1. Departure -- 2. "The Lords of Human Kind" -- 3. When China Was the Rage in Europe -- 4. Protected by the British Fleet -- 5. A Whiff of China -- II: ANOTHER PLANET -- 6. Macao -- 7. Skirting Canton -- 8. Strange Beings -- 9. Rounding Up Pilots -- 10. "The Renown of the English Name" -- 11. Delivery of the Tribute -- 12. "'Tis New to Thee" -- 13. Gifts or Tribute -- 14. The Journey Upriver -- 15. A Lesson in the Kowtow -- 16. Residing in a Temple -- 17. A City of Wood -- 18. Gathering Clouds -- 19. Passing Through Peking -- 20. The Garden of Perfect Brightness -- 21. Meeting the Missionaries -- 22. The Palace of Discovery -- 23. A Distraught Scholar -- 24. The Science of Government -- 25. A Gilded Prison -- 26. Europeans Turned Chinese -- 27. A Sovereign Under the Influence -- 28. The Emperor's Vermilion Brush -- 29. Jehol is Not the Place to Do Business -- III: IN THE SHADOW OF THE EMPEROR -- 30. Toward the Great Wall -- 31. In the Tartar Lands -- 32. The Crisis of Ritual -- 33. Victory -- 34. To Each His Own Truth -- 35. The Aftershock -- 36. The Morning of the Big Day -- 37. At the Emperor's Feet -- 38. The Paradise of Ten Thousand Trees -- 39. The Emperor of the Tartars -- 40. The Party Continues -- 41. Court Secrets -- 42. The Atmosphere Darkens -- 43. Back in Peking -- 44. Shipwreck -- 45. A Scroll of Paper Enthroned -- 46. A Suzerain's Letter to His Vassal -- 47. A Message in a Bottle -- 48. "We Quitted ... Like Vagrants" -- IV: THE REAL MISSION BEGINS -- 49. Responding to a Delay -- 50. A Learned Grand Councillor -- 51. Celestial Correspondence -- 52. Works and Days -- 53. Sabotage the Barbarian Vessels -- 54. An Emperor "Upon His Guard Against the Slightest Appearance of Innovation" -- 55. An Unrivaled Postal System -- 56. "A Couple of English Frigates Could Reduce Their Coasts to Famine -- 57. Qianlong's Wrath -- 58. A Rooster Sacrificed -- 59. China's Paradise: Suzhou -- 60. Brides for Sale -- 61. Glimmers in the Gloom -- 62, "Mollifying Them While Conceding Them Nothing" -- V: NEW DEVELOPMENTS, FRESH HOPES -- 63. The Patriarch's Testament -- 64. On to the Deep South -- 65. Keeping Hope Alive -- 66. A Passage over Land -- 67. "A Stroke of Luck for Our Country" -- 68. Corporal Punishment -- 69. Pleasures and Frustrations of Tourism -- 70. The Match of Progress -- 71. Descent Toward Canton -- 72. Where the Barbarian Devils Were Hated -- 73. Canton -- 74. Encounters -- 75. Extern Brothers and Felonious Merchants -- 76. Rearguard Actions -- 77. Tomorrow, China -- 78. More Prosperous Chinese -- 79. A Surprising Request fot a Military Alliance -- 80. Oceans at War -- VI: AFTER MACARTNEY OR A SPIRAL OF MISFORTUNE -- 81. The End of Europe's China Fad -- 82. A Dutch Embassy Humiliated -- 83. Golovkin: An Embassy Aborted -- 84. Amherst's Embassy Rejected -- 85. Amherst at Saint Helena -- 86. In Exchange for Tea: Opium -- 87. Military Action -- 88. Implosion Analysis China Foreign relations History Great Britain Notes Translation of: L'Empire immobile ou le choc des mondes. Originally published in French: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1989 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 597-609) and index Notes Translated into English Subject Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806. British -- Travel -- China -- History -- 18th century. British -- China -- History -- 18th century. SUBJECT China -- Foreign relations -- 1644-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024027 China -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114681 China -- History -- Qianlong, 1736-1795. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024083 Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- China. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100231 Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1789-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056707 Great Britain -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056684 Author Rothschild, Jon. LC no. 93205990 ISBN 0002726777 9780002726771

Other Titles Empire immobile ou le choc des mondes. English

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