Jenny Huangfu Day

Qing Travelers to the Far West

Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fundamentally new interpretation of the Qing reveals how Sino-Western engagements transformed traditions, institutions, and networks of communications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 188mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781108471329
• ISBN-10: 1108471323
• Artikelnr.: 53020610

Autorenporträt

Jenny Huangfu Day is Assistant Professor of History at Skidmore College, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The traveler
2. The envoy
3. The student
4. The scholar
5. The diplomat
6. The strategist
Epilogue
Appendix 1. Zhigang's passage on the White House visit in the 1877 and 1890 editions
Appendix 2. Selected passages that appeared in the Chushi taixi jiyao (1890) but not in the Chushi taixi ji (1877)
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.