LEADER 04120nam 22006254 450 001 9910789338403321 005 20140423021020.0 010 $a1-306-86746-0 010 $a0-8223-9628-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822396284 035 $a(CKB)3400000000085106 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10879448 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000681967 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12294751 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000681967 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10678898 035 $a(PQKB)11421075 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007834 035 $a(OCoLC)800715399 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78821 035 $a877963313 035 $a(DE-B1597)552739 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822396284 035 $a(OCoLC)1226679634 035 $a(dli)HEB09172 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011499287 035 $a(EXLCZ)993400000000085106 100 $a20140423d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCherishing men from afar $eQing guest ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 /$fJames L. Hevia 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d1995. 215 $a1 online resource (312 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-1637-4 311 $a0-8223-1625-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- A multitude of lords : the Qing Empire, Manchu rulership, and interdomainal relations -- Planning and organizing the British embassy -- King Solomon in all his glory : the British embassy in China -- Guest ritual and interdomainal relations -- Channeling along a centering path : greeting and preparation -- Convergence : audience, instruction, and bestowal -- Bringing affairs to a culmination -- Guest ritual and diplomacy -- From events to history : the Macartney embassy in the historiography of Sino-Western relations. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aDiplomatic etiquette$zChina 607 $aChina$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zChina 607 $aChina$xForeign relations$y1644-1912 615 0$aDiplomatic etiquette 676 $a327.51041/09/033 700 $aHevia$b James Louis$f1947-$01004678 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789338403321 996 $aCherishing men from afar$92308192 997 $aUNINA