British Travel Writing from China 1798-1901 Volume 1

In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland. Volume 1: Early Encounters, 1798-1824 General Introduction S Holmes, The Journal of Mr Samuel Holmes (1798); G Wilkinson, Sketches of Chinese Customs & Manners (1814); G T Staunton, Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences during the British Embassy to Peking in 1816 (1824)