{"id":18375,"date":"2022-09-30T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=216473"},"modified":"2022-09-30T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:19:09","slug":"clash-of-cultures-how-interpreters-bridged-the-gap-between-britain-and-china","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/clash-of-cultures-how-interpreters-bridged-the-gap-between-britain-and-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Clash of cultures: how interpreters bridged the gap between Britain and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 30 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Henrietta Harrison discusses her <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/21st-century\/cundill-history-prize-what-news-jurors-shortlist-winner\/&quot;\">Cundill Prize-shortlisted<\/a> book on the interpreters who took on the dangerous task of communicating between the British empire and Qing China. 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