{"id":439,"date":"2007-11-23T20:38:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T20:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2008-07-06T20:53:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T20:53:38","slug":"emperor-qian-long-to-king-george-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/emperor-qian-long-to-king-george-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperor Qian Long to King George III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/mod\/1793qianlong.html\">This link<\/a> came across my desk and I share it because of my ties to Hong Kong and fondness for China.\u00a0 It is the text of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/mod\/1793qianlong.html\">famous letter from Emperor Qian Long sent to King George III<\/a> at the height of Chinese civilisation in the 18th century.\u00a0 China entered into a 200-year period of decline shortly afterwards. It&#8217;s a great reminder of the benefits of openness, and an\u00a0entertaining read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This link came across my desk and I share it because of my ties to Hong Kong and fondness for China.\u00a0 It is the text of a famous letter from Emperor Qian Long sent to King George III at the height of Chinese civilisation in the 18th century.\u00a0 China entered into a 200-year period of &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/emperor-qian-long-to-king-george-iii\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emperor Qian Long to King George III<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20,32,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-china","category-mediaandgatherings","category-trade-and-fdi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-75","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}