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2024-06-02
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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[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...
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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