An Embassy to China - Folio Society edition Being the Journal kept by Lord Macartney during his Embassy to Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 1793-1794 - Macartney, Lord George
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King George III (1738-1820) of England sent Lord Macartney (George Macartney, 1737-1806) to convince the Chinese emperor to open northern port cities to British traders and to allow British ships to be repaired on Chinese territory. Macartney arrived in North China in a warship with a retinue of 95, an artillery of 50 redcoats, and 600 packages of magnificent presents that required 90 wagons, 40 barrows, 200 horses, and 3,000 porters to carry them to Peking. Yet the best gifts of the kind of England had to offer - elaborate clocks, globes, porcelain - seemed insignificant beside the splendours of the Asian court. Taken on a yacht trip around the palace, Macartney stopped to visit 50 pavilions, each "furnished in the richest manner . . . that our presents must shrink from the comparison and hide their diminished heads," he later wrote. Immediately the Chinese labelled his mission as "tribute," and the emperor refused to listen to British demands. He also ordered Macartney to perform the kow-tow and dashed off ...
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First printing in Folio Society. Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth, with decorative papered boards, gilt spine titles and endpaper maps; 314pp., with a colour frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. As new in an illustrated slipcase with very minor wear.
