A journal of the first French embassy to China, 1698-1700
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A journal of the first French embassy to China, 1698-1700
（Cambridge library collection）
Cambridge University Press, 2012
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"This digitally printed version 2012"--T.p. verso
:Reprint. Originally Published: London : Thomas Cautley Newby, 1859
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Description
It was not until the early twentieth century that the previously unpublished source of this 1859 work was identified as being itself a reworking of Francois Froger's Relation du premier voyage, fait en 1698, 1699 et 1700, a journal of his experiences as a young engineer while sailing with the first French ambassadorial party to China. This translation by Saxe Bannister (1790-1877) supplements the original official account with anecdotes and notes: the work is therefore based on composite primary evidence. This does not detract, however, from the worth of this book, in which Bannister uses a lengthy introduction and appendices of further primary evidence to apply what can be learned from earlier works to the contemporary context of the Opium Wars, aiming to promote a more peaceful and balanced attitude towards China. It is a useful example of scholarly propaganda in the history of nineteenth-century Anglo-Chinese relations.
Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction: 1. The urgent need of better intelligence respecting China and Japan
- 2. The need of improved principles of intercourse with the Chinese
- 3. The Chinese government well disposed in the last two centuries to encourage friendly intercourse with foreign governments
- 4. The general opinion, respecting the dislike of foreigners by the Chinese, erroneous
- 5. The four British missions to Pekin in 1787, 1792, 1804, and 1816
- 6. The Honourable Colonel Charles Cathcart's mission to Pekin in 1787
- 7. Lord Macartney's embassy, 1792
- 8. The success of Lord Macartney's embassy to Pekin in 1792. The results
- 9. Lord Amherst's embassy to Pekin, in 1816
- 10. Gio Ghirardini's residence in China in 1698
- 11. Father Bouvet, the Jesuit, in China, 1698
- 12. British antecedents to the French mission of 1698
- 13. The law of administrative justice in China
- 14. The corruption of opinion, and of our home colonial administration from 1806 to 1858
- 15. British conquests, or British commerce in China
- 16. Christianity in China
- 17. The ceremony of the Kotou
- 18. Japan
- The Journal of the First French Embassy to China, in 1698, 1699, and 1700: 1. From La Rochelle to the Cape of Good Hope
- 2. Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope
- 3. From the Cape of Good Hope to Achen
- 4. Achen
- 5. From Achen to Malacca
- 6. Malacca
- 7. From Malacca to Governor's Strait
- 7. [sic] From Governor's Island to the Lunettes
- 8. From the Lunettes to the Sancian Island
- 9. From Sancian Islands to Macao
- 10. Macao
- 11. From Macao to Whampoa
- 12. Canton River and Canton
- 13. Canton and the River Tiger
- 14. From Canton River to the Coast of Cambodia
- 15. The Coast of Cambodia to Banca and Bantam
- 16. Bantam to Java Head by the Straits of Sunda
- 17. Java Head to Mauritius and Bourbon
- 18. Bourbon to St Helena
- 19. St Helena to Fayal
- Appendix.
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