Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan.
What 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.
發表於2024-12-28
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[按:由於寫作業的關係,把這本書重新看瞭一遍。不得不承認,這本書在很大程度上是一本不完整的書,書中零散著很多小處洞見,但談不上大的架構,這和作者導言裏錶現的雄心壯誌,相去甚遠。如果有誰想否認這一點,我希望他可以嘗試為本書第五章寫一個概述,那麼他就會發現,要總...
評分[按:由於寫作業的關係,把這本書重新看瞭一遍。不得不承認,這本書在很大程度上是一本不完整的書,書中零散著很多小處洞見,但談不上大的架構,這和作者導言裏錶現的雄心壯誌,相去甚遠。如果有誰想否認這一點,我希望他可以嘗試為本書第五章寫一個概述,那麼他就會發現,要總...
評分 評分中國近代史研究之所以是一門顯學,那是由於古老的中國文明與西方文明首次碰撞的結果,古與今,新與舊,傳統與現代,進步與落後,世界史上兩個文明遭遇之後的所有可能性都在這裏匯聚,自然能吸引眾多研究者的興趣。但稍微瞭解一下近些年近代史研究方麵的著作就會發現,盡管近代...
評分語詞的衝突絕非小事,它凝聚和反映的是兩個帝國之間的生死鬥爭,一邊是日趨衰落的大清國,另一邊是蒸蒸日上的大英帝國。誰擁有對“夷”這個漢字的最後的詮釋權,誰就可以躊躇滿誌地預言這個國傢的未來。 ——劉禾 語言文字隻是黑暗世界的一盞燈,産生實際塑造作用的大部...
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a seminal study of the possibility of rethinking sovereignty and desire in late Qing China. first two chapters rock.
評分a seminal study of the possibility of rethinking sovereignty and desire in late Qing China. first two chapters rock.
評分a seminal study of the possibility of rethinking sovereignty and desire in late Qing China. first two chapters rock.
評分a seminal study of the possibility of rethinking sovereignty and desire in late Qing China. first two chapters rock.
評分a seminal study of the possibility of rethinking sovereignty and desire in late Qing China. first two chapters rock.
The Clash of Empires 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載