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Cherishing Men from Afar

Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793

Szerző: James L. Hevia

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

Küldés 14-21 napon belül

11 658 Ft

In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time - the...

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Szerző

James L. Hevia

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1995

oldal

312

EAN

9780822316374

ISBN

0822316374

Enbook ID

04936562

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

510

Méretek

229 x 155 x 22

Teljes leírás

In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time - the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion was the mission of Lord Macartney, sent by the British crown and sponsored by the East India Company, to the court of the Qianlong emperor. Cherishing Men from Afar looks at the initial confrontation between these two empires from a historical perspective informed by the insights of contemporary postcolonial criticism and cultural studies. The history of this encounter, like that of most colonial and imperial encounters, has traditionally been told from the Europeans' point of view. In this book, James L. Hevia consults Chinese sources - many previously untranslated - for a broader sense of what Qing court officials understood; and considers these documents in light of a sophisticated anthropological understanding of Qing ritual processes and expectations. He also reexamines the more familiar British accounts in the context of recent critiques of orientalism and work on the development of the bourgeois subject. Hevia's reading of these sources reveals the logics of two discrete imperial formations, not so much impaired by the cultural misunderstandings that have historically been attributed to their meeting, but animated by differing ideas about constructing relations of sovereignty and power. His examination of Chinese and English-language scholarly treatments of this event, both historical and contemporary, sheds new light on the place of the Macartney mission in the dynamics of colonial and imperial encounters.