Aeneas Anderson in China

by Frances Wood

Lord Macartney's mission to open up China in 1792 failed, but it did give the Western world its first glimpse of the secretive Middle Kingdom, through the memoirs written by eight different members of the embassy. But the most lively and accessible of the books was that written by Aeneas Anderson, Lord Macartney's valet. China scholar Frances Wood introduces Anderson's account of the two-year adventure, which make clear that the valet was seeing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888552457
• ISBN13: 9789888552450
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Earnshaw Books Ltd
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.1"