Travels In China
Containing Descriptions, Observations and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20004737 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Barrow (0000-0001-9602-8654), Sir John Barrow, st Baronet |
| Year | 1804 |
| Publication date | 1804-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Travels in China (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511708978 |
| OpenAlex | W2972858877 |
| Open Library | OL27092801M |
| ISBN | 9780511708978 |
| GOOGLE_BOOK_ID | u3ccRAAACAAJ |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
In 1792, a British embassy headed by Earl Macartney travelled from Peking (Beijing), China, to Canton (Guangzou) with the aim of improving trade with China. The complete account of the mission was recorded by the Earl's private secretary, Sir John Barrow, in Travels in China (1804), a work intended to 'shew this extraordinary people in their proper colours' as well as to 'divest the court of the tinsel and tawdry varish' which Barrow thought that missionary accounts promoted. Both a paean to British imperial ambitions and a compelling example of early nineteenth-century travel literature, Travels in China presents an account of Chinese government, trade, industry, and cultural and religious practices through the eyes of one of England's most ardent expansionists. Barrow would go on to write an account of the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty (1831), but Travels in China remained by far the more significant work in his lifetime
Archaeology · China · Geography · Chinese history and philosophy · Japanese History and Culture · Travel Writing and Literature · description and travel
Prisoners in Silken Bonds
Building Shanghai
Yangzhou's “Mondernity”
A Multitude of Lords
The Kotow in the Macartney Embassy to China in 1793
Notes on the beginnings of systematic dialect description and comparison in Chinese
The Images of the Japanese and the Chinese in Early Modern Europe
Lord Macartney, India and China
Going global
The American Trader's Image of China, 1785-1840
The Devil's Handwriting
China and the Erie Canal
A Brief History of Mandarin
The First Global Turn
Deodorizing China
State Building before 1644
The Ch'ien-lung Reign
The Social Roles of Literati in Early to Mid-Ch'ing
The Yung-cheng Reign
Social Stability and Social Change
Economic Developments, 1644–1800
China, India, and the social construction of technology in international society
Spatial Order and Police in Imperial Beijing
Gender and Sinology
Romantic Pretexts
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1943 - 2020 (78) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |