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Sto caricando le informazioni... Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 (1995)di James Louis Hevia
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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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Hevia provides an alternate way to conceive of the mission. Rather than seeing Qing intransigence as the problem, he saw English arrogance and ignorance as the source of the mission's failure. Macartney could not understand the Qing cosmology that had the emperor as over other sovereigns. Hevia argues that the imperial structure of the Qing Empire was incompatible with that of the British Empire.
Although Hevia appears to take on Fairbank's interpretation, his only major disagreement is where to lay the blame. His alternate construction of the clash of empires seems to be one of tone rather than substance. That said, tone matters. Fairbank reads like a triumph of western civilization, even though his interpretation is more nuanced than that. Hevia provides a very good alternative. ( )