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2024-11-20
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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...
評分在中國古代文書典籍中,華夷這個詞具有豐富的含義。我對此做瞭一定的總結,如下: 1. 政治地理概念。齣自《周禮》職方氏,王畿之外分九服,夷服去王國七韆裏。華的含義就是中央行政區。這不單單是簡單的地理概念,而是政治地理概念。華就是中央政權所在地。中國古代按照...
評分劉禾的書研究的是符號在跨語言的過程中發生變化,以觀察帝國的碰撞,具體而言是近代中西方的衝突曆史。現在我主要讀瞭第一、二、三章。 劉禾說這本書是她在翻閱大量鴉片戰爭時期的外交公文時獲得的靈感。在第二三章中,她選擇瞭一個漢字中的“夷”作為論點,其實用她的方法論,...
評分 評分劉禾的書研究的是符號在跨語言的過程中發生變化,以觀察帝國的碰撞,具體而言是近代中西方的衝突曆史。現在我主要讀瞭第一、二、三章。 劉禾說這本書是她在翻閱大量鴉片戰爭時期的外交公文時獲得的靈感。在第二三章中,她選擇瞭一個漢字中的“夷”作為論點,其實用她的方法論,...
圖書標籤: 劉禾 曆史 論政 經典 清 教科書 原文譯著對比 中國民族誌
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