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Under any circumstances, being an interpreter is no easy task. But for those translating at the first formal diplomatic contact between China and the west, the stakes were higher than usual.
Henrietta Harrison joined me on the, which looks at the translators working on Sino-British negotiations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
