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  title info:
    title: Kowtow
    sub title: Georgian Britain, imperial China, and the Irishman who introduced them
  name:
    name part: McDonnell, Eoin.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 192 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In 1793, George Macartney introduced two of the leading empires of his age, and set off one of the greatest power shifts in history. Kowtow: Georgian Britain, Imperial China and the Irishman who Introduced Them tells the story of Macartney, Britain's first Ambassador to China, and his career that spanned the globe, from the Caribbean to India, from Brazil to Indonesia, and then finally through China to Peking. Kowtow explains why Macartney's embassy was needed, and examines the nature and personalities of the Ambassador and his imperial host, the Emperor Qianlong. The reader will journey with Macartney across the world into Peking's Summer Palace, before crossing over the Great Wall to Qianlong's summer hunting grounds in Rehe. The story of the Macartney mission provides significant lessons for modern diplomatic engagements and trade relations, and still causes great reverberations today. As a result, his mission represents one of the major missed opportunities in history and the challenges faced by Macartney still finds echoes in relations between China and the West.
  note: Eoin McDonnell.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Emperor of China
      name part: Qianlong
      name part: 1711-1799
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Earl
      name part: Macartney, George Macartney
      name part: 1737-1806
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
  subject:
    topic: British
    topic: Travel
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: China
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Great Britain
  identifier: 9781781558218
  identifier: 1781558213
  record info:
    record content source: MDB
    record creation date: 210430
    record change date: 20220105170325.0
    record identifier: in00004366513