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Memoir of the Life & Family of the Late Sir George Leonard Staunton, Bart.
With an Appendix, Consisting of Illustrations and Authorities; and a Copious Selection From His Private Correspondence ..
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
336 kr
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Ta Tsing Leu Li Being The Fundamental Laws, And A Selection From The Supplementary Statutes Of The Penal Code Of China
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
503 kr
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Ta Tsing Leu Li Being The Fundamental Laws, And A Selection From The Supplementary Statutes Of The Penal Code Of China
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
391 kr
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Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Sir George Thomas Staunton
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
389 kr
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Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Sir George Thomas Staunton
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
245 kr
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Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China, and our Commercial Intercourse With That Country. Part the Second
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
391 kr
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461 kr
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Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China, and our Commercial Intercourse With That Country. Part the Second
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
280 kr
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280 kr
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391 kr
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210 kr
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364 kr
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Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China, and Our Commercial Intercourse With That Country
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
461 kr
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Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China, and Our Commercial Intercourse With That Country
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
350 kr
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370 kr
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Sir George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859), sinologist and politician, was a key figure in early nineteenth-century Anglo-Chinese relations. Staunton secured a post as a writer in the East India Company's factory in Canton in 1798 and was the only Englishman at the factory to study Chinese. He translated China's penal code and was promoted to chief of the Canton factory in 1816. He was a member of Britain's Amherst embassy to Peking in 1816-1817 to protest against mandarins' treatment of Canton merchants. The embassy failed to obtain an imperial interview but, despite being threatened with detention by the Chinese, Staunton insisted that the British should not submit to the emperor. Staunton returned to England in 1817, and served as a Tory MP between 1818 and 1852. Staunton's Memoirs, which were printed privately in 1856, provide a unique insight into nineteenth-century British perceptions of China.
Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China, and our Commercial Intercourse with that Country, including a Few Translations from the Chinese Language
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
496 kr
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The sinologist George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859) learned Chinese as a child and accompanied his father on a trip to China in 1792 where, though the Ambassador's page, he was the only member of the delegation who could speak to the Emperor in Chinese. A career in the East India Company's Canton factory followed, and he translated many texts between Chinese and English. Upon his return to Britain in 1817, he spent many years as a Tory MP and often spoke about China and its trade with Britain. He also continued to write about these issues, and this collection of translations and essays, published in 1822, reflects Staunton's varied interests - ranging from a translation of the Chinese history, Tung-wha-loo to his own writings on the Company's trade disputes with the Emperor - making this work a unique and valuable source of information on British cultural, economic, and diplomatic relations with China in the early nineteenth-century.
Ta Tsing Leu Lee; Being the Fundamental Laws, and a Selection from the Supplementary Statutes, of the Penal Code of China
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
817 kr
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The sinologist George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859) learned Chinese as a child and accompanied his father on a trip to China in 1792 where, though the Ambassador's page, he was the only member of the delegation who could speak to the emperor in Chinese. A career in the East India Company's Canton factory followed, and he translated many texts between Chinese and English, including this penal code, published in 1810, which was its first translation into any European language. The 'Fundamental Laws' was the legal code of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), and contained more than 1,000 statutes. Staunton organised his translation of a selection of the laws into seven divisions: general, civil, fiscal, ritual (religious), military, criminal and public works. He also includes an appendix with translations of edicts regarding matters such as punishment, making this compendium an invaluable guide to the complex legal regime of the Qing Dynasty.
Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences, during the British Embassy to Pekin, in 1816
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
566 kr
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Sir George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859), Sinologist and politician, was a key figure in Anglo-Chinese relations, as had been his father. In 1798 he began working for the British East India Company in Canton (Guangzhou), where he was the only Englishman who could understand Chinese, having begun learning it as a child. By 1815, British trade with China was worth over £4 million in tea duties alone, and there was immense pressure for the Chinese to relax their restrictions. In 1816, following earlier failed missions, an embassy, including Staunton as second commissioner, was organised to seek better trading conditions and to press the emperor for the opening up of a second harbour. Chinese mistrust and British arrogance led to the failure of the embassy, with no imperial audience given. This account, privately published in 1824, is a valuable document in the understanding of the historical background to Britain's relationship with China into the twentieth century.
Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China, and Our Commercial Intercourse with That Country; Including a Few Translations from the Chinese Language. Second Edition, Enlarged
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
322 kr
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336 kr
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Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China, and Our Commercial Intercourse with That Country; Including a Few Translations from the Chinese Language. Part the Second
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
280 kr
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Notes of proceedings and occurrences, during the British embassy to Pekin, in 1816
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
325 kr
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Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars in the Years 1712, 13, 14 and 15; By the Chinese Ambassador (Tu-Li-Shin) and Pub
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
294 kr
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