The Immobile Empire by Alain Peyrefitte

The Immobile Empire

Alain Peyrefitte

630 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation--including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats--entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney's famous refusal to perfo...

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