# The Immobile Empire

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- Book: [The Immobile Empire](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-peyrefitte/the-immobile-empire) ([The Immobile Empire.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-peyrefitte/the-immobile-empire.md))
- Authors: [Alain Peyrefitte](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-peyrefitte)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-4580-395-5
- Pages: 688
- Published: 2013-05-21
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to...