Chinese and British diplomatic gifts in the Macartney Embassy of 1793
This paper looks at the choice, reception and afterlife of both the Chinese and the British gifts given during Britain’s first embassy to China. Earlier studies have tended to fault the Qing court for understanding the gifts they received as tribute and failing to appreciate the scientific items giv...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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