Posts Tagged: qianlong

Emperor Qianlong’s Poem to Macartney

Today’s podcast is an interesting poem that functions less as a beautiful poem but more a historical artifact. In 1793, the English Ambassador met with the Chinese Emperor. After their meeting, the emperor, Qianlong, wrote an interesting poem about the encounter. In today’s podcast, we dissect that poem. Below is also Lee’s English translation of […]

Not Made in China, Part Deux: Voltaire and the Qianlong Emperor

Voltaire was such a huge fan of China that he once wrote a poem in celebration of the Qianlong Emperor, due to little else than intel that the emperor was a poet. That was enough, apparently! Who knows if Qianlong read it, but we did. Join us for part two in our series.