English Lessons
内容简介
Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multi-power invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great Britain enacted a pedagogical project that was itself a form of colonization, James L. Hevia demonstrates how British actors instructed the Manchu-Chinese elite on "proper" behavior in a world dominated by multiple imperial powers. Their aim was to "bring China low" and make it a willing participant in British strategic goals in Asia. These lessons not only transformed the Qing dynasty, but ultimately contributed to its destruction.
Hevia analyzes British Foreign Office documents, diplomatic memoirs, auction house and museum records, nineteenth-century scholarly analyses of Chinese history and culture, campaign records, and photographs. He shows how Britain refigured its imperial project in China as a cultural endeavor by investigating the circulation of military loot in Europe, the creation of an art history of "things Chinese," the construction of a field of knowledge about China, and the Great Game rivalry between Britain, Russia, and Qing empire in Central Asia. Each of these elements not only influenced the colonial project, but also had a significant impact on creating a national consciousness in China.
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作者简介
James L. Hevia is Chair of the Curriculum in International and Area Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His book Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 (published by Duke University Press) won the Joseph Levenson Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.
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目录
Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables 000
Acknowledgments 000
Abbreviations 000
1. Introduction: Imperialism, Colonialism, and China 000
Part I. Opium Wars and Treaties of Peace, Friendship, and Commerce 000
2. The Arrow War, 1856-1860 000
3. Violence and the Rule of Law in China, 1856-1858 000
4. Loot, Prize, and a Solemn Act of Retribution 000
PART II. Reterritorializing China, 1861-1900 000
5. Constructing a New Order 000
6. The Qing Empire in the Era of European Global Hegemony 000
PART III. Making China Perfectly Equal 000
7. A Reign of Terror: Punishment and Retribution in Beijing and Its Environs 000
8. Desacralizing Qing Sovereignty, 1900-1901 000
9. Mnemonic Devices: Memorializing the West as Victim and Hero 000
10. The Return of the Repressed, Recirculations, and Chinese Patriotism 000
Postscript 000
Bibliography 000
Index 000
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