The linked article is about “the 1793 meeting of Lord George Macartney and the Qianlong emperor, an infamous embassy in the history of East-West relations.” If

The linked article is about “the 1793 meeting of Lord George Macartney and the Qianlong emperor, an infamous embassy in the history of East-West relations.” If anyone is interested in learning more about that diplomatic mission, the official two-volume account, published in 1797, is fascinating [1, 2]. The full title is An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China: including cursory observations made, and information obtained in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary; together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion of His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India company's service, to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe; taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Sir Erasmus Gower, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy. The accompanying volume of plates is at [3]. Thank you again, Internet Archive. [1] https://archive.org/details/authenticaccount01stau/page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/authenticaccount01stau/page/n5/m... [2] https://archive.org/details/authenticaccount02stau/page/n7/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/authenticaccount02stau/page/n7/m... [3] https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008481562/page/n9/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008481562/page/n9/mode/...