The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire.

But I wonder whether the Li-Staunton approach to interpretation was unique to the eighteenth century, or whether the precision-driven methodology of Robert Morrison dominated the later era. The book suggests that the shift from eighteenth-century global interconnectedness to the nineteenth century of imperialism saw a decline in the Li-Staunton type of interpreters, who believed in the compatibility of the two cultures. [Extracted from the article]