"The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision of imperial will and competing interests, rather than the civi...

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1. Verfasser:	Liu, Lydia H. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Harvard University Press 2004
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1861-1912 Geschichte Politik Kontrastive Grammatik Imperialismus Völkerrecht Chine - Histoire - 1861-1912 Chine - Politique et gouvernement - 19e siècle China > History > 1861-1912 China > Politics and government > 19th century Großbritannien China
Zusammenfassung:	"The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision of imperial will and competing interests, rather than the civilizational attributes of existing nations and cultures, led to the invention of "China," "the East," "the West," and the modern notion of "the world" in recent history. Drawing on her archival research and comparative analyses of English - and Chinese-language texts, as well as their respective translations, she explores how the rhetoric of barbarity and civilization, friend and enemy, and discourses on sovereign rights, injury, and dignity were a central part of British imperial warfare. Exposing the military and philological - and almost always translingual - nature of the clash of empires, this book provides a new interpretation of modern imperial history."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	XIII, 318 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0674013077