The Collision of Two Civilizations: The British Expedition to China 1792-4
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Contents: Journey to China [Departure; Lords of Human Kind; When China Was the Rage in Europe; Protected by the British Fleet; Whiff of China]; Another Planet [Macao; Skirting Canton; Strange Beings; Rounding Up Pilots; Renown of the English Name; Tribute; Tis New to Thee; Gifts; Journey Upriver; Lesson in the Kowtow; Residing in a Temple; City of Wood; Gathering Clouds; Passing Through Peking; Garden of Perfect Brightness; Meeting Missionaries; Palace of Discovery; Distraught Scholar; Science of Government; Gilded Prison; Europeans Turned Chinese; Sovereign Under the Influence; Emperor's Vermilion Brush; Jehol Is Not the Place for Business]; In the Shadow of the Emperor [Toward the Great Wall; In Tartar Lands; Crisis of Ritual; Victory; To Each His Own Truth; Aftershock; Morning of the Big Day; At Emperor's Feet; Paradise of 10000 Trees; Emperor of Tartars; Party Continues; Court Secrets; Atmosphere Darkens; Back in Peking; Shipwreck; Scroll of Paper Enthroned; Suzerain's Letter to His Vassal; Message in a Bottle; We Quitted Like Vagrants]; Real Mission Begins [Responding to a Delay; Learned Grand Councillor; Celestial Correspondence; Works & Days; Sabotage Barbarian Vessels; Emperor Upon His Guard Against the Slightest Appearance of Innovation; Unrivaled Postal System; Couple of English Frigates Could Reduce Their Coasts to Famine; Qianlong's Wrath; Rooster Sacrificed; Paradise Suzhou; Brides for Sale; Glimmers in the Gloom; Mollifying Them While Conceding Them Nothing]; New Developments, Fresh Hopes [Patriarch's Testament; Deep South; Keeping Hope Alive; Passage Over Land; Stroke of Luck for Our Country; Corporal Punishment; Pleasures & Frustrations of Tourism; Match of Progress; Descent Toward Canton; Where the Barbarian Devils Were Hated; Canton; Encounters; Extern Brothers & Felonious Merchants; Rearguard Actions; Tomorrow China; More Prosperous Chinese; Request for a Military Alliance; Oceans at War]; After Macartney or a Spiral of Misfortune
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