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The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East’s disinterest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney’s two interpreters at that meeting—Li Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton. Who were these two men? How did they intervene in the exchanges that they mediated? And what did these exchanges mean for them? From Galway to Chengde, and from political intrigues to personal encounters, Harrison reassesses a pivotal moment in British-China relations. She shows that there were Chinese who were familiar with the West, but growing tensions endangered those who embraced both cultures and would eventually culminate in the Opium Wars.
Harrison demonstrates that the Qing court’s ignorance about the British did not simply happen, but was manufactured through the repression of cultural go-betweens like Li and Staunton. She traces Li’s influence as Macartney’s interpreter, the pressures Li faced in China as a result, and his later years in hiding. Staunton interpreted successfully for the British East India Company in Canton, but as Chinese anger grew against British imperial expansion in South Asia, he was compelled to flee to England. Harrison contends that in silencing expert voices, the Qing court missed an opportunity to gain insights that might have prevented a losing conflict with Britain.
Uncovering the lives of two overlooked figures, The Perils of Interpreting offers a valuable argument for cross-cultural understanding in a better-connected world.
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##今天我们的外交翻译足够好吗？作者说英国人可能还是听不懂翻译官总的古代表达，以及比较让人困惑的某理论术语翻译……读完有些难过。不管你做了什么，那不过是夏天里飘过的一朵云……鸦片战争的爆发就是因为贸易逆差导致，是不可避免的。双方好译者的缺失只是加速事情的发生一点点……
评分##今天我们的外交翻译足够好吗？作者说英国人可能还是听不懂翻译官总的古代表达，以及比较让人困惑的某理论术语翻译……读完有些难过。不管你做了什么，那不过是夏天里飘过的一朵云……鸦片战争的爆发就是因为贸易逆差导致，是不可避免的。双方好译者的缺失只是加速事情的发生一点点……
评分##沈艾娣对于翻译的看法让我很受震动，她的人文关怀也很让我感动。缺点就是叙事有点琐碎吧，尤其是马嘎尔尼使团那一段看得挺痛苦的。对翻译史是越来越感兴趣啦，作者能把一个小题目做得这么大真的超厉害！接下来要抓紧去看看关诗珮那本书啦~
评分##作为历史读物确实为反欧洲中心论又添了一把柴火。读起来很流畅很有趣。不过，可能从侧面也反映出了一些历史作品的局限性。比如作者说是因为这些cultural mediator给决策者传递了错误的信息所以才导致了很多我们不想看到的后果。但是这也只是一种cultural exchange的情况。（不过还是给proposal灵感来源五星！
评分1. 史料翔实，句句有出处。 2. （世界）历史真的不像我脑瓜里记得的那样简单。eg.虎门销烟 3. Dont kill the msger, 同理，dont kill the interpreter. eg.签订《NJ条约》时，我方没有自带口译员，因为不敢接活。美在叙利亚行动的口译员。 4. 李自标和小斯当东的经历，放在今天也是不多的。
评分##应当是掌握了相当多的一手史料
评分##作为历史读物确实为反欧洲中心论又添了一把柴火。读起来很流畅很有趣。不过，可能从侧面也反映出了一些历史作品的局限性。比如作者说是因为这些cultural mediator给决策者传递了错误的信息所以才导致了很多我们不想看到的后果。但是这也只是一种cultural exchange的情况。（不过还是给proposal灵感来源五星！
评分##鸦战之前，中英两国都有对彼此有所了解的民众在，为何这场战争没能避免？关于异国的知识如何传播，而这些知识又能对一个国家的外交决策产生多大程度的影响…….种种在本书中展开的问题，都能让今日的我们有“似曾相识之感”。 （小斯当东和李自标都是其祖国的“文化异乡人”，这点竟让我很能共情…….
评分##我可以
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