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First published in 1973.
This book describes the career of Sir George Macartney, who spent twenty-eight years at the turn of the nineteenth century as British representative in Sinkiang, China's most westerly province.
Macartney was in a unique position to observe political and diplomatic manoeuvres by the key players trying to establish a sphere of influence in China's strategically vital hinterland before and during the Chinese revolution.
Macartney, George, --- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) --- History.
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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.
Diplomatic etiquette --- Macartney, George Macartney, --- China --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations
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British --- History --- Macartney, George Macartney, --- China --- China --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations --- History --- Foreign relations
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Diplomatic etiquette --- Macartney, George Macartney, --- China --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations
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Translating and interpreting --- Macartney, George --- China --- Great Britain --- Description and travel --- Foreign relations
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Macartney, George Macartney, --- Great Britain --- China --- Great Britain --- China --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations
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Macartney, George, --- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) --- Great Britain --- China --- History. --- Foreign relations --- History. --- Foreign relations --- History. --- China --- Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region --- Political events, 1644-1949
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British --- History --- Macartney, George Macartney, --- China --- China --- China --- Great Britain --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- History --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations
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S09/0505 --- S09/0200 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Great-Britain --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--General works and before 1840 --- Diplomatic etiquette --- Diplomatic protocol --- Protocol, Diplomatic --- Diplomacy --- Government etiquette --- Macartney, George Macartney, --- Ma-chia-erh-ni, --- Makartneĭ, --- China --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations --- Macartney, George Macartney
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