Cherishing Men from Afar

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ISBN: 9780822316374 | 0822316374
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/1995

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"James Hevia persuasively suggests a whole new way of viewing not just the Macartney embassy but the entire subject of Sino-Western interaction from the eighteenth century to the present. "Cherishing Men from Afar "deserves to be read by the widest spectrum of historians."--Paul A. Cohen, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University

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Preface
Introduction
A Multitude of Lords: The Qing Empire, Manchu Rulership, and Interdomainal Relations
Planning and Organizing the British Embassy
King Solomon in All His Glory: The British Embassy in China
Guest Ritual and Interdomainal Relations
Channeling Along a Centering Path: Greeting and Preparation
Convergence: Audience, Instruction, and Bestowal
Bringing Affairs to a Culmination
Guest Ritual and Diplomacy
From Events to History: The Macartney Embassy in the Historiography of Sino-Western Relations
Appendix
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
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Cherishing Men from Afar

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