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The Empire Writes Back: Reconsidering British Discourse on the Macartney Embassy in the Narrative of Britain’s Road to War with Qing China
(2020-05-19)
The Treaty of Nanjing (1842), which ended the First Opium War (1839-1842), represented the triumph of the British Empire's “universal” truth of free trade over the Qing Empire’s “unnatural” restriction of foreign commerce. ...