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The Macartney Embassy, also called the Macartney Mission, was the first British diplomatic mission to China, which took place in 1793. It is named for its leader, Viscount Macartney, Great Britain's f
Lord Macartney's embassy, 1793
1749 illustration of Canton
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
The imperial hunt of the Qing dynasty was an annual rite of the emperors of China's Qing dynasty. It was first organized in 1681 by the Kangxi Emperor at the imperial hunting grounds at Mulan. Startin
The Qianlong Emperor on a hunting trip
Kublai Khan out hunting
Saihanba National Forest Park, which encompasses part of the old hunting grounds
Detail from Portrait of the Emperor Troating for Deer, by Giuseppe Castiglione (1741)