| Description |
1 online resource (355 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Modern History Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Modern History Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 1583-1840, from cultural diplomacy to gunboat diplomacy -- 0.1 The old tale and a new narrative -- 0.2 Structure of the book -- Notes -- References -- 1. Where the tale of the two empires began -- 1.1 Once upon a time, a British monarch wrote a letter to a Chinese emperor -- 1.2 The incomprehensible letters -- 1.3 European sceptre vs. Chinese dragon -- Notes -- References -- 2. The Tributary System and the first Anglo-Chinese encounters |
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2.1 The Tributary System and its implications on China's foreign relations -- 2.2 Ming China: Seen, presented and influenced by Westerners -- 2.3 The Sino-speak vocabulary of outsiders and foreigners -- 2.4 Exchange ideas, goods or fire? -- Notes -- References -- 3. The earliest Chinese travellers to the Far West -- 3.1 Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde: The first exchanges of a learned nature -- 3.2 Loum Kiqua and William Hickey: The first taste of Chinese music and Chinese food -- 3.3 Tan Che-Qua and William Chambers: The first Chinese artistic legacy that can still be seen in the UK today |
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3.4 Huang Yadong and William Jones: The first English letter exchanged between the two peoples -- 3.5 The first Chinese travellers who wrote about Europe and Britain -- Notes -- References -- 4. Chinoiserie vs. Euroiserie: Mutual reflections of material culture and perception gaps -- 4.1 The seemingly Yin-Yang flow between the two empires in material culture -- 4.2 China's Yuanming Yuan and Britain's Kew Garden and Brighton Palace -- 4.3 The British perception of Qing China and the perception gap to the real Qing |
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4.4 The Chinese perception of the British Empire and the perception gap to the real British -- Notes -- References -- 5. When the lion meets the dragon: Lost in translation or beyond translation? -- 5.1 Tributary System Vs. Westphalian System: Mission impossible for the Macartney Embassy to China -- 5.2 Gift or tribute: Two words, two worlds -- 5.3 To kowtow or not to kowtow, that is the question -- 5.4 Letters, letters -- 5.5 Change of the mutual perceptions between the two empires -- Notes -- References -- 6. The Amherst Embassy to China, an insurmountable generation gap between the two empires |
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6.1 The negative assets from the Macartney Embassy -- 6.2 To kowtow or not to kowtow, was this still the question? -- 6.3 The Minion culture in the Qing court -- 6.4 Redrawing Self and Other: New knowledge produced by the Amherst Embassy -- Notes -- References -- 7. From the Tea War to the Opium War -- 7.1 The story of tea and opium -- 7.2 The rhetoric war and trade war -- 7.3 The opium debates -- 7.4 Falling into the Thucydides Trap? -- 7.5 Postscript -- Notes -- References |
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Conclusion: The two great reversals -- Historical implications on the modern-day interactions between a post-Brexit UK and a globalising China |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Diplomatic relations.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- China
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China -- History
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| Subject |
China.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000637601 |
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1000637603 |
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