| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
the European destruction of the palace of the emperor of China |
| 作者: |
RingmarErik, |
| 其他團體作者: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| 出版地: |
New York, NY |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
[2013] |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource |
| 集叢名: |
Cultural sociology |
| 標題: |
China - Civilization - |
| 標題: |
Europe - Relations - China. - |
| 標題: |
China - Relations - Europe. - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137031600 |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record |
| 摘要註: |
"Liberal Barbarism", Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace north-west of Beijing - at the hands of British and French armies. Yuanmingyuan was the emperor's own theme-park, a perfect world, a vision of paradise, which housed one of the greatest collections of works of art ever assembled. The intellectual puzzle which the book addresses concerns why the Europeans, bent on "civilizing" the Chinese, engaged in this act of barbarism. The answer is provided through an analysis of the performative aspect of the confrontation between Europe and China, focusing on the differences in the way their respective international systems were conceptualized. Ringmar reveals that the destruction of Yuanmingyuan represented the Europeans' clmpaign to "shock and awe" the Chinese, thereby forcing them to give up their way of organizing international relations. The contradictions which the events of 1860 exemplify - the contradiction between civilization and barbarism - is a theme running through all European (and North American) relations with the rest of the world since, including, most recently, the US war in Iraq. |
| ISBN: |
9781137031600electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137031603electronic bk. |
| 內容註: |
Introduction Liberals and barbarians An awesome performance Paradise destroyed An imperial theme park The North China Campaign of 1860 Enter the barbarians Practices & performances An International Society of Civilized States The failure of the liberal project Performing for European public opinion Performing for the Chinese emperor Conclusion A palace in a dream. |