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    The Macartney Embassy (Chinese: 馬加爾尼使團), also called the Macartney Mission, was the first British diplomatic mission to China, which took place in 1793...
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    George Macartney should not be confused with Sir George Macartney, a later British statesman. George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, KB, PC (Ire) (14 May...
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    British Forces Overseas Hong Kong Mao Zedong's cult of personality Macartney Embassy Liu Yong Heshen Chenhan (宸翰, Chénhàn) seal used for calligraphy and...
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    part of Chinese Tartary (1797) is the official report on the British Macartney Embassy to Qing China that took place between 1792 and 1794. It was written...
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    This diplomatic and trade mission would be headed by Lord Macartney. While the Macartney Embassy returned to London without obtaining any concession from...
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    grace of outline, and delicacy of execution. He accompanied the Macartney Embassy to China in 1792. Prints of his work were reproduced from engravings...
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    The Macartney Embassy. Lord Macartney salutes the Qianlong Emperor, but refuses to kowtow....
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  • to Canton (as Guangzhou was then known) in the south. The British Macartney Embassy of 1793 failed to convince the Qianlong Emperor to open northern Chinese...
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    203.suppl_4 (2009): 212–234. Pritchard, Earl H. "The kotow in the Macartney embassy to China in 1793." Journal of Asian Studies 2.2 (1943): 163–203. online...
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    Section 12: Lord Macartney's embassy to China; Series 62: Papers concerning publication of the account of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China, ca 1797...
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    the Qing dynasty. In 1793, Heshen was responsible for hosting the Macartney Embassy to the imperial court. After the Qianlong Emperor abdicated in February...
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    largely fruitless diplomatic mission to Jehol, a large part of Lord Macartney's embassy returned south to the Yangtze delta via the Grand Canal. In 1848...
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    sealing era can still be found. The island was a stop on the British Macartney Embassy on its voyage to China in 1793. On 11 October 1833, the British barque...
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    nickel content at 31.6%. Guesswork ended when James Dinwiddie of the Macartney Embassy brought back in 1793, at considerable personal risk (smuggling of...
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    unreserved admiration and condemnation of it as a "monument to fear". The Macartney Embassy of 1793 passed through the Great Wall at Gubeikou on the way to see...
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    carried the British ambassador Lord Macartney on his way to visit the Qianlong Emperor of China (the Macartney embassy). On their way they stopped at New...
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    Section 12: Lord Macartney’s embassy to China; Series 62: Papers concerning publication of the account of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China, ca 1797...
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  • a 64-gun third rate launched in 1777, best known for ferrying the Macartney Embassy to China. She was used as a sheer hulk from 1816 and was sold for...
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  • Hevia (1995). Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793. Duke University Press. pp. 45–. ISBN 0-8223-1637-4. C.R....
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    guillotine for political reasons, in Paris. September – Macartney Embassy: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, sails from Portsmouth in HMS Lion as the first...
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    Baronet noted on his visit to the Qing summer palace as part of the Macartney Embassy in 1793 that there were two kinds of Chinese eunuchs. Some only had...
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  • Viceroy of Zhili in 1790. On 6 August 1793, he met Macartney and Staunton of the British Macartney Embassy during the British diplomatic mission in China...
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  • Gillan joined the 1793 Macartney Embassy to China as a physician. The embassy was led by George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney. He was admitted a Licentiate...
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    Calcutta, India and travelled to China along with Lord Macartney as part of the Macartney Embassy to lecture on physics and promote British astronomical...
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  • in 1992. The book gives a sweeping narrative of the British Embassy of Sir George Macartney to the Qianlong Emperor of China in 1793. The book was translated...
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    mind and heart are tranquil. Lord Macartney, who visited the Qianlong Emperor at Rehe in 1793 during the Macartney Embassy, gave the following account of...
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    National Convention. June – The Macartney Embassy, a British diplomatic mission to China led by George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, reaches Canton, but will...
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    Governors 5 May 1797 to 20 November 1798 George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney Known for the 1793 Macartney Embassy to China 20 November 1798 to 9 December 1799...
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    1873 under the Tongzhi Emperor of the Qing. During the 1793 British Macartney Embassy, John Barrow visited the Precious Belt Bridge, accurately describing...
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    about the British Macartney Embassy to the Qing court in 1793, he requested that the commissioners-general in Batavia send a VOC embassy to the court of...
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