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Alain Peyrefitte
Publications - 19
Citations - 228
Alain Peyrefitte is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Empire & China. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 19 publications receiving 224 citations.
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The collision of two civilisations : the British expedition to China in 1792-4
TL;DR: The story of a failed attempt by the British, in 1793, to open the Chinese Empire to Western trade is described in this paper, where the author has made use of a variety of sources, including, on the British side, the diary of the 12-year-old Thomas Stanton, son of Macartney's deputy, who was the only person in the whole English fleet who spoke Chinese, and newly discovered secret reports of the Emperor's officials, all annotated by the Emperor himself.