Barrow's Travels in China

Barrow's Travels in China

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Proudfoot William Jardine
Cambridge University Press
EAN: 9781108045636
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William Jardine Proudfoot (c.1804–1887) published his critique of Sir John Barrow's Travels in China (1804; also reissued in this series) with the agenda of exposing the latter as unreliable and unjust. Barrow had accompanied Lord Macartney on the first British mission to the Chinese Imperial Court (1792–4), in a party that also included the official astronomer, Dr James Dinwiddie, Proudfoot's grandfather. Comparing Barrow's account to that found in other records, Proudfoot concludes that the earlier work was 'a great humbug', ascribing to Barrow the 'powerful motive' of self-promotion. In a work full of vitriol against its subject, Proudfoot's concern is to honour the memory of the mission's members, whom he felt Barrow belittled and vilified, and also to point out factual inaccuracies, accusing him of seeking amusement rather than truth in his anecdotes. Read alongside Barrow's work, it makes for an interesting, scornful, and often entertaining counter.
EAN 9781108045636
ISBN 1108045634
Typ produktu Měkká vazba
Vydavatel Cambridge University Press
Datum vydání 12. července 2012
Stránky 184
Jazyk English
Rozměry 216 x 140 x 11
Země United Kingdom
Autoři Proudfoot William Jardine
Ilustrace Worked examples or Exercises
Série Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History