A Journal of the First French Embassy to China, 1698-1700

by Froger, Fran Ois; Saxe Bannister

• ISBN13: 9781108045537
• ISBN10: 1108045537
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-02
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

It was not until the early twentieth century that the previously unpublished source of this 1859 work was identified as being itself a reworking of François Froger's Relation du premier voyage, fait en 1698, 1699 et 1700, a journal of his experiences as a young engineer while sailing with the first French ambassadorial party to China. This translation by Saxe Bannister (1790-1877) supplements the original official account with anecdotes and notes: the work is therefore based on composite primary evidence. This does not detract, however, from the worth of this book, in which Bannister uses a lengthy introduction and appendices of further primary evidence to apply what can be learned from earlier works to the contemporary context of the Opium Wars, aiming to promote a more peaceful and balanced attitude towards China. It is a useful example of scholarly propaganda in the history of nineteenth-century Anglo-Chinese relations.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Introduction

The urgent need of better intelligence respecting China and Japan

The need of improved principles of intercourse with the Chinese

The Chinese government well disposed in the last two centuries to encourage friendly intercourse with foreign governments

The general opinion, respecting the dislike of foreigners by the Chinese, erroneous

The four British missions to Pekin in 1787, 1792, 1804, and 1816

The Honourable Colonel Charles Cathcart's mission to Pekin in 1787

Lord Macartney's embassy, 1792

The success of Lord Macartney's embassy to Pekin in 1792. The results

Lord Amherst's embassy to Pekin, in 1816

Gio Ghirardini's residence in China in 1698

Father Bouvet, the Jesuit, in China, 1698

British antecedents to the French mission of 1698

The law of administrative justice in China

The corruption of opinion, and of our home colonial administration from 1806 to 1858

British conquests, or British commerce in China

Christianity in China

The ceremony of the Kotou

Japan

The Journal of the First French Embassy to China, in 1698, 1699, and 1700

From La Rochelle to the Cape of Good Hope

Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope

From the Cape of Good Hope to Achen

Achen

From Achen to Malacca

Malacca

From Malacca to Governor's Strait

[sic] From Governor's Island to the Lunettes

From the Lunettes to the Sancian Island

From Sancian Islands to Macao

Macao

From Macao to Whampoa

Canton River and Canton

Canton and the River Tiger

From Canton River to the Coast of Cambodia

The Coast of Cambodia to Banca and Bantam

Bantam to Java Head by the Straits of Sunda

Java Head to Mauritius and Bourbon

Bourbon to St Helena

St Helena to Fayal

Appendix

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