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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tonio AndradePublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691177113ISBN 10: 0691177112 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 01 June 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsOne of the best academic studies in terms of both scholarship and writing-style I have read in ten years or more. . . . [A]n accessible, exciting, and illuminating book, written with consummate verve and enthusiasm. ---John Butler, Asian Review of Books """A Fortune Best Book of the Year"" ""The Last Embassy is rare in the field of academic history, in that it works just as well as a story as it does as a work of significant historical investigation. The story of the Dutch embassy to Beijing—the last to the Imperial Chinese court—has everything: competing protagonists, trials and tribulations, and imperial pomp and circumstance. Andrade’s work is a wonderfully written work about a neglected event in diplomatic history.""---Nicholas Gordon, Fortune ""One of the best academic studies in terms of both scholarship and writing-style I have read in ten years or more. . . . [A]n accessible, exciting, and illuminating book, written with consummate verve and enthusiasm.""---John Butler, Asian Review of Books ""An animated account.""---Peter Neville-Hadley, South China Morning Post Magazine ""Its lively writing, quick chapters, and the descriptions of the various parts of the empire that the embassy travels through, give readers a panoramic view of the empire at its height.""---Reid Wyatt, World History Connected" A Fortune Best Book of the Year The Last Embassy is rare in the field of academic history, in that it works just as well as a story as it does as a work of significant historical investigation. The story of the Dutch embassy to Beijing-the last to the Imperial Chinese court-has everything: competing protagonists, trials and tribulations, and imperial pomp and circumstance. Andrade's work is a wonderfully written work about a neglected event in diplomatic history. ---Nicholas Gordon, Fortune One of the best academic studies in terms of both scholarship and writing-style I have read in ten years or more. . . . [A]n accessible, exciting, and illuminating book, written with consummate verve and enthusiasm. ---John Butler, Asian Review of Books An animated account. ---Peter Neville-Hadley, South China Morning Post Magazine Author InformationTonio Andrade is professor of Chinese and global history at Emory University. His books include The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History (Princeton), Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West (Princeton), and How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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