The English in China
Author | : James Bromley Eames |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : China |
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Author | : James Bromley Eames |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : China |
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Author | : William Edward Soothill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : China |
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Author | : Martin Powers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2020-05 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780367545284 |
This book examines egalitarian social ideals and institutions that arose in preindustrial China and England, and in the process, uncovers China's forgotten role in the history of social justice debate and legislation during the eighteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of visual and documentary evidence, the author shows that many prominent individuals in both England and China adopted comparable strategies as a logical response to excesses of privilege and arbitrary power, with educated but non-noble persons taking advantage of print culture, a more literate population, an expanded art market, public spaces and other familiar 'early modern' developments to interrogate the system of inherited privilege and promote a more meritocratic society. This shared experience created common ground for transformative exchange between the two great traditions during the eighteenth century. By providing a more global account of what we call Western values, the book shows that early modern China and England had far more in common than is normally supposed, and thus challenges claims on the right and the left that the people of China lacked a concept of social justice and that China's cultural legacy should be treated as exceptional in regard to human rights.
Author | : Jonathan E. Lux |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030840328 |
The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals used the utopian ideal of China to license all kinds of progressive innovation before chronicling how England’s growing commerce in southeast Asia radically changed China’s representation in the English discourse community. For the new community of English merchants proposing to trade in Chinese goods, China became the seminal example in the growing discourse community of English Orientalism. It was an absolute or arbitrary authoritarian state, associated with crooked business dealings, and cloaked in a rhetoric of secrecy and exclusion—a dangerous exception to the traditions, values, and identities of the emergent English speaking states. Finally, the book points out some of the ways that contemporary English language sources continue to represent this early modern English thought tradition, labelling the complexities of modern China with analytical vocabulary perhaps better suited to the pressing political anxieties of the seventeenth century.
Author | : Justus II |
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Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1877 |
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Author | : Andrew Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : British |
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Author | : Peter Perring Thoms |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : British |
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Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1842 |
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Author | : Englishman |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Opium trade |
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Author | : Stephen R. Platt |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307961745 |
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.