The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China by Tonio Andrade

The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China

Tonio Andrade

344 pages missing pub info (editions)

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From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narra...

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