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Description: Perils of Interpreting : The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire, Paperback by Harrison, Henrietta, ISBN 069122546X, ISBN-13 9780691225463, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East’s lack of interest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney’s two interpreters at that meeting—Li Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton. Who were these two men? How did they intervene in the exchanges that they mediated? And what did these exchanges mean for them? From Galway to Chengde, and from political intrigues to personal encounters, Harrison reassesses a pivotal moment in relations between China and Britain. She shows that there were Chinese who were familiar with the West, but growing tensions endangered those who embraced both cultures and would eventually culminate in the Opium Wars. Harrison demonstrates that the Qing court’s ignorance about the British did not simply happen, but was manufactured through the repression of cultural go-betweens like Li and Staunton. She traces Li’s influence as Macartney’s interpreter, the pressures Li faced in China as a result, and his later years in hiding. Staunton interpreted successfully for the British East India Company in Canton, but as Chinese anger grew against British imperial expansion in South Asia, he was compelled to flee to England. Harrison contends that in silencing expert voices, the Qing court missed an opportunity to gain insights that might have prevented a losing conflict with Britain. Uncovering the lives of two overlooked figures, The Perils of Interpreting offers an empathic argument for cross-cultural understanding in a connected world.

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Number of Pages: 360 Pages

Publication Name: Perils of Interpreting : The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire

Language: English

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication Year: 2023

Item Height: 0.7 in

Subject: Social History, Europe / Great Britain / General, Asia / China

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 19 Oz

Item Length: 9.3 in

Author: Henrietta Harrison

Subject Area: History

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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