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Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart., Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford: One of the King's Commissioners to the Court ... Library Collection - Travel and Exploration)
Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Sir George Thomas Staunton Bart Hon DCL of Oxford One of the King's Commissioners to the Court Library Collection Travel and Exploration
Author: George Thomas Staunton
Sir George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859), sinologist and politician, was a key figure in early nineteenth-century Anglo-Chinese relations. Staunton secured a post as a writer in the East India Company's factory in Canton in 1798 and was the only Englishman at the factory to study Chinese. He translated China's penal code and was promoted to chief ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781108014922
ISBN-10: 1108014925
Publication Date: 6/10/2010
Pages: 248
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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