LEADER 03827nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910813869403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-04029-5 024 3 $a9780674019959 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786876 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000122917 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12002251 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122917 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10131727 035 $a(PQKB)10905333 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483361 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11304263 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483361 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10529127 035 $a(PQKB)11165145 035 $a(WaSeSS)114224 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300220 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314229 035 $a(OCoLC)923109660 035 $a(DE-B1597)574460 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674040298 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300220 035 $a(OCoLC)1243310444 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786876 100 $a20040301d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe clash of empires $ethe invention of China in modern world making /$fLydia H. Liu 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2004 215 $axiii, 318 p. $cill., maps 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-01995-4 311 $a0-674-01307-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-296) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Civilizations Do Not Clash; Empires Do -- $t1 The Semiotic Turn of International Politics -- $t2 The Birth of a Super-Sign -- $t3 Figuring Sovereignty -- $t4 Translating International Law -- $t5 The Secret of Her Greatness -- $t6 The Sovereign Subject of Grammar -- $tConclusion: The Emperor's Empty Throne -- $tAppendix: Lin Zexu's Communication to Queen Victoria -- $tNotes -- $tGlossary of Selected Chinese Characters -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms. 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 startlingly new interpretation of modern imperial history. 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / China$2bisacsh 607 $aChina$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aChina$xHistory$y1861-1912 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y19th century 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / China. 676 $a951/.034 700 $aLiu$b Lydia He$0573699 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813869403321 996 $aThe clash of empires$94034398 997 $aUNINA