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Pamela Crossley: The Macartney Embassy, 18 August 2022
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
by Henrietta Harrison.
Princeton, 341 pp., £25, January,978 0 691 22545 6 Show More
by Henrietta Harrison.
Princeton, 341 pp., £25, January,
“... for almost a century. But the paradigm is problematic: it isn’t only ahistorical but, as Henrietta Harrison suggests in The Perils of Interpreting, it focuses on the wrong people. Her account supplements the existing European language scholarship on the Macartney saga by John Cranmer-Byng, Alain Peyrefitte, James Hevia, John Watt and ... ”