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1793: The British Embassy's Audience with Qianlong (Unmasking the Qing Dynasty's 'Golden Age Hoax') 1793乾隆英使觐见记（揭开满清的“盛世骗局”） Ma Jiani马戛尔尼Historical90k WordsCompleted As the luster of the "Kangxi-Qianlong Golden Age" fades under historical scrutiny, Macartney's An Account of the British Embassy to the Emperor of China reads like a sharp scalpel, cutting through the false prosperity of the Qing Empire in the eighteenth century. A firsthand account by a member of a Western diplomatic mission, the book calmly shatters the illusion of the "Celestial Empire": along the way, people in rags fought over scraps of food; soldiers carried rusted firearms and wore helmet 6Reads8.7Score—Shelves