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Aeneas Anderson in China

Autor Frances Wood
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2022
Lord Macartney's mission to open up China in 1792 failed, but it did give the Western world its first glimpse of the secretive Middle Kingdom, through the memoirs written by eight different members of the embassy. But the most lively and accessible of the books was that written by Aeneas Anderson, Lord Macartney's valet.
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ISBN-13: 9789888552450
ISBN-10: 9888552457
Pagini: 356
Ilustrații: None
Dimensiuni: 145 x 206 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: EARNSHAW BOOKS LTD

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Frances Wood was Curator of the Chinese collections at the British Library for nearly 30 years. She was responsible for the joint British Museum-British Library exhibition on the Macartney Embassy in 1992. Her work on the collections includes books and essays on the Silk Road and the Stein collection, a survey of Sir Hans Sloane's Chinese books and an essay on William Alexander's sketches made on the Embassy. A graduate of both Cambridge and Peking universities, she has published many books, including Did Marco Polo Go to China? and No Dogs and not many Chinese.