Macartney’s 1793 mission was a failure, but the Dutch were better informed. This new study argues that the Qing court was not arrogant and narrow-minded, as the English concluded, but was in fact open, flexible, curious, and cosmopolitan.
The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
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