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.
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.
發表於2024-11-21
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圓明園故事:從帝國教程到曆史記憶 賴駿楠 1860年10月7日,入侵北京的法國軍隊到達瞭一處有圍牆的園林,他們認定這就是皇帝的夏宮圓明園,在擊退瞭園內的一些留守人員後,法國人開始劫掠這所皇宮。很快的,英軍官兵也參加到劫掠之中。與此同時,...
評分Journal of World History English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China. By James L. Hevia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003; and Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003. 392 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). There...
評分“中華帝國隻是一艘破舊不堪的舊船,隻是幸運地有瞭幾位謹慎的船長纔使它在近150年期間沒有沉沒。它那巨大的軀殼使周圍的鄰國見瞭害怕。假如來瞭個無能之輩掌舵,那船上的紀律與安全就都完瞭。但船不會立刻沉沒,它將像一個殘骸那樣到處漂流,然後在岸上撞得粉碎,並且永遠不能...
評分2009年12月29日,在烏魯木齊某個行刑地點,隨著一支針頭的推進,英國籍毒犯什肯•阿剋毛被處決。據說這是50年來第一個在中國大陸被處決的英國人。阿剋毛之難逃一死,本在所有明眼人的意料之中。阿剋毛的命運,在170年前已經注定。 多年以後,這個事件的象徵意味將再次被人提...
評分鮮血、頭顱、屍體;看不清錶情的聯軍士兵與清朝官員百姓;慘酷的處決現場與斑駁磚牆上殘破的英文課廣告——從這樣一張極富有張力和象徵性的照片齣發,何偉亞(Hevia)開始瞭他的敘述。 與《懷柔遠人》一樣,何偉亞的第二部著作有一個漂亮的中譯名——《英國的課業》(在讀...
圖書標籤: 曆史 海外中國研究 Hevia 近代史 殖民 晚清 清史 politics
reopens the discussion of Euro-American imperialism in China
評分看到這書,時而想起在1822cafe的早晨,陽光,學術,輕鬆。。。
評分reopens the discussion of Euro-American imperialism in China
評分中國人早就知道這種lessons是什麼瞭
評分reopens the discussion of Euro-American imperialism in China
English Lessons 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載