Kate Teltscher

The High Road To China (Könyv)

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In 1774 the East India Company dispatched George Bogle, a young Scotsman, to the court of the Panchen Lama in Tibet, hoping through his good offices to open up trade routes into China. The mission was a total failure: as the Chinese Emperor pointed outin a letter to George III, what possible use could anyone in China have for the primitive products of a backward island situated somewhere out on the edge of the world? Despite this, Bogle and the Panchen Lama forged a remarkable friendship,well-documented in contemporary Tibetan accounts and in Bogle's own letters and private papers. Kate Teltscher weaves these documents into a compelling narrative, vividly capturing how strange Tibet and China seemed to the British, and how strange theBritish must have seemed to them.

Kate Teltscher: The High Road To China könyv ára: 3 390 Ft