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SUMMARY:The Cost of Receiving Foreign Tributes to the Qing Court
DESCRIPTION:This is the annual Dr H Y Mok Charitable Foundation Lecture\n*****\nMany European countries wanted to establish a diplomatic relation with the Qing after they had replaced the Ming as ruler of China in 1644, but most of the European countries insisted that their envoy entered the Qing court as an “ambassador”, not a “tributary”. China, on the other hand, did not admit the idea of an “embassy”. Chinese emperors presumed that foreigners came to Beijing out of admiration for the Celestial Empire.\nWhen writing about European embassies to China historians usually focus on the kowtow ceremony, or the large sums of money the embassies spent buying the presents. They seldom speak of the expenses that the Chinese government had to bear to receive those embassies.\nThis lecture will show that Chinese emperors also had to pay large sums of money to receive those presents.\nImage: Jade ruyi given to George Staunton by Emperor Qianlong in September 1793. Copyright V&A, A.17-1925\n
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