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CHINA: To What Extent Did The Three Missions (Macartney, Amherst and Naipier) Fail?
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To What Extent Did The Three Missions (Macartney, Amherst and Naipier) Fail? The Orthodox view of the Macartney (1793), Amherst (1816) and Napier (1834) missions to China is that the missions ended in failure. And indeed, if failure is defined by the success of the missions to reach their goals, then they were. However, this essay will argue that stipulate that, if failure of the missions is defined as the total absence of any benefit to the British occurring, then the missions can not be said to have failed to the full extent. The lessons that the British learned about the Chinese from their respective missions were beneficial to them as they helped to demonstrate the course of action required to rectify their grievances with the state of trade in China. The Maccartney mission in China had goals which were to be reflected in the other missions to bei jing....
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