1st Edition

British Travel Writing from China, 1798-1901, Volume 2

By Elizabeth H Chang Copyright 2010

    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 2: Mid-Century Explorations, 1841-1863 J L Scott, Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite (1841); W H Medhurst, A Glance at the Interior of China (1850); T W Blakiston, Five Months on the Yangtze (1862); G Fleming, Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary (1863)