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.
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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...
評分這本書初讀之時,確實令人感覺觀點獨到,方法新穎。但最近又翻瞭翻,逐漸意識到問題其實很大。本書雖然引用瞭很多的史料,尤其是西方人的報道,迴憶錄,外交文件等,但是所下的結論,很多是源自作者自己想當然的理解,並非根據資料的嚴格的批判分析得來的,尤其是對一些儀式與...
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...
評分圖書標籤: 曆史 海外中國研究 Hevia 近代史 殖民 晚清 清史 politics
Not that impressed, the relative absence of Chinese-language sources and some of the more grandiose claims made on ceremonies are both rather problematic. It's less Chinese history rather than global/imperial history, and somewhat far-fetched at that.
評分This book is more important than people have realized, and few notice that it interrelates with The Great Divergence.
評分看到這書,時而想起在1822cafe的早晨,陽光,學術,輕鬆。。。
評分The Imperialism strikes back! Fascinating, but we still need to know how Chinese students learnt, and how they related with other students, say the Ottoman and Indian, in this classroom of imperial pedagogy, rather than merely foucsing on how the British teachers 'taught'...
評分The Imperialism strikes back! Fascinating, but we still need to know how Chinese students learnt, and how they related with other students, say the Ottoman and Indian, in this classroom of imperial pedagogy, rather than merely foucsing on how the British teachers 'taught'...
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