Selling Science by Dorothy Nelkin
George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801) arrived in China in 1792 as a member of a British delegation whose objective was to improve trade and establish better diplomatic relations with the Chinese, who, at the time, restricted economic activity with foreigners to the port of Canton (Guangzhou). Although the group managed to secure an audience with the Qianlong Emperor - to whom the British envoy Lord Macartney famously refused to kowtow - their mission failed. Staunton kept detailed notes throughout his time in China, and in 1797 this two-volume account of the visit was published, and later translated into French and German. Volume 1 begins with a historical account of China's diplomatic relations with Britain and other nations, and then discusses the extensive preparations for the delegation's voyage, and the long journey itself, which took them round the Cape of Good Hope and through South-East Asia before arriving in China nine months later.
Nelkin, Dorothy: - Dorothy Nelkin is professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Cornell University. She is the author of The Creation Controversy, Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions, and Science as Intellectual Property. Michael S. Brown is research associate at the Center for the Study of Drug Development at Tufts University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780716725954 |
| ISBN 10 | 0716725959 |
| Title | Selling Science |
| Author | Dorothy Nelkin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Macmillan Learning |
| Year published | 1995-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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