Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Dramatis Personae xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Lives That Crossed the World
7. Chapter 1. The Li Family of Liangzhou 17
8. Chapter 2. George Leonard Staunton of Galway 26
9. Chapter 3. Li Zibiao’s Education in Naples 37
10. Chapter 4. George Thomas Staunton’s Peculiar Childhood 50
11. Part II. Li Zibiao and Lord Macartney’s Embassy
12. Chapter 5. Finding an Interpreter for an Embassy to China 61
13. Chapter 6. Crossing the Oceans 72
14. Chapter 7. Other Possible Interpreters 85
15. Chapter 8. Li Zibiao as Interpreter and Mediator 100
16. Chapter 9. Speaking to the Emperor 114
17. Chapter 10. Becoming an Invisible Interpreter 129
18. Chapter 11. Li Zibiao after the Embassy 141
19. Part III. George Thomas Staunton and the Canton Trade
20. Chapter 12. George Thomas Staunton Becomes an Interpreter 155
21. Chapter 13. Sir George Staunton, Translator and Banker 168
22. Chapter 14. The British Occupation of Macao and Its Aftermath 182
23. Chapter 15. A Linguist and His Troubles 195
24. Chapter 16. The Amherst Embassy 207
25. Part IV. Exclusion
26. Chapter 17. Li Zibiao’s Last Years in Hiding 223
27. Chapter 18. Staunton in Parliament 233
28. Chapter 19. The Opium War 247
29. Chapter 20. Forgetting 259
30. Conclusion 270
31. Abbreviations 275
32. Glossary 277
33. Notes 279
34. Selected Bibliography 319
35. Illustration Credits 331
36. Index 333
37. A Note on the Type 343