The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire

The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British EmpireDESCRIPTION : A fascinating history of Chinas relations with the Westtold through the lives of two eighteenth century translators The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartneys fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the Easts lack of interest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the