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2025-02-02
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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...
評分這本書的內容是關於“19世紀以來圍繞主權想象的跨文化知識傳統和話語政治”。與很多近代史研究的著作不同,它的關注點放在瞭語言等錶意符號上的政治碰撞——“跨語際”的主權想象和衝突上麵。 該書所著重分析的幾個符號事件,如衍指符號“夷/i/barbarian”的創造、《新約全書...
評分 評分這本書的內容是關於“19世紀以來圍繞主權想象的跨文化知識傳統和話語政治”。與很多近代史研究的著作不同,它的關注點放在瞭語言等錶意符號上的政治碰撞——“跨語際”的主權想象和衝突上麵。 該書所著重分析的幾個符號事件,如衍指符號“夷/i/barbarian”的創造、《新約全書...
評分這本書的內容是關於“19世紀以來圍繞主權想象的跨文化知識傳統和話語政治”。與很多近代史研究的著作不同,它的關注點放在瞭語言等錶意符號上的政治碰撞——“跨語際”的主權想象和衝突上麵。 該書所著重分析的幾個符號事件,如衍指符號“夷/i/barbarian”的創造、《新約全書...
圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 劉禾 曆史 翻譯 近現代史 Lydia_H.Liu 國際關係 中國史學研究
Both Ma Jianzhong and Robert Morrison died in the midst of translation work they were performing for their respective governments during military confrontations.
評分這個俺讀過。 論翻譯那章還是挺好看的。
評分這個俺讀過。 論翻譯那章還是挺好看的。
評分感謝!
評分Both Ma Jianzhong and Robert Morrison died in the midst of translation work they were performing for their respective governments during military confrontations.
The Clash of Empires 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載