Embassies And Illusions
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Embassies And Illusions
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Author : John E. Wills
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Embassies And Illusions written by John E. Wills and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with History categories.
This study shows how peculiar circumstances in the early Ch'ing led to the application of inherited routines of the tribute embassy to relations with the Europeans. Chinese records of these embassies strengthened the illusion, persisting into the Opium War period, that the tribute system was relevant to the conduct of Sino-European relations. From archival and printed sources in seven languages, John Wills traces the progress of four embassies to the court of K'ang-hsi in the seventeenth century.
Embassies And Illusions
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Author : John Elliot Wills
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University
Release Date : 1984
Embassies And Illusions written by John Elliot Wills and has been published by Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
Preliminary Material /John E. Wills Jr. --Continuities and Routines /John E. Wills Jr. --Pieter van Hoorn 1666-1668 /John E. Wills Jr. --Manoel de Saldanha 1667-1670 /John E. Wills Jr. --Bento Pereira de Faria 1678 /John E. Wills Jr. --Vincent Paats 1685-1687 /John E. Wills Jr. --The Survival of Ch'ing Illusions /John E. Wills Jr. --Brief Account of the Journey Made to the Court of Peking by Lord Manoel de Saldanha, Ambassador Extraordinary of the King of Portugal to the Emperor of China and Tartary (1667-1670) /Father Francisco Pimentel S.J. --Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J., on the Embassy of Bento Pereira de Faria, 1678 /John E. Wills Jr. --Three Poems on the Lion Brought by the Portuguese, 1678 /John E. Wills Jr. --Gifts and Food Allotments from the Ch'ing Court /John E. Wills Jr. --Gifts Brought by the Embassies /John E. Wills Jr. --Notes /John E. Wills Jr. --Bibliography /John E. Wills Jr. --Glossary /John E. Wills Jr. --Index /John E. Wills Jr. --Harvard East Asian Monographs /John E. Wills Jr.
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Author : 欧阳哲生著
language : en
Publisher: BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Release Date : 2021-11-09
written by 欧阳哲生著 and has been published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with History categories.
本书着重探讨了西人来京的路线、途径，在京居住、生活、活动和通信手段，在京与朝野士人的交往，对北京建筑、风俗、地理、历史的观察和研究，对中国政治、经济、文化、军事情报的搜集和窥探，全景式地深度透析西方视野里的北京形象。
Embassies To China
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Author : Michael Keevak
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-06-21
Embassies To China written by Michael Keevak and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-21 with History categories.
This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China. Considering differing notions of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy as touchstones in the relations between China and Europe on mutuality, the book examines five encounters with France, Portugal, Holland, the pope, and Russia between 1248 and 1720, and reflects on concepts that the West took for granted but which did not successfully cross over into the Chinese world. This cutting edge text provides key insights into the cultural and political conflict which lay at the heart of early Chinese-European relations, as the West's understanding of the truth and appropriateness of its cultural norms was confronted by China's norms and beliefs.
Prelude To Colonialism
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Author : Jurrien van Goor
language : en
Publisher: Uitgeverij Verloren
Release Date : 2004
Prelude To Colonialism written by Jurrien van Goor and has been published by Uitgeverij Verloren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Singular Case
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Author : Ashley Eva Millar
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2017-03-22
Singular Case written by Ashley Eva Millar and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-22 with History categories.
China held a unique place in European thought during the eighteenth century. Considered a relatively unknown but advanced agrarian and commercial civilization, the Chinese Empire represented the apex of an economic system that was only beginning to be supplanted. Europeans did not assume their superiority and were drawn to study the nature and organization of China’s economy. Analyzing the writings of early modern European travellers, missionaries, merchants, geographers, and philosophers, including Charles de Secondat, Denis Diderot, David Hume, François Quesnay, Abbé Raynal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Voltaire, A Singular Case evaluates the circulation of information about the Chinese political economy that fed European imaginations. Ashley Millar examines perceptions of China’s science, technology, and moral and behavioural foundations, foreign trade policies, and the form and function of China’s government in order to question the extent to which consensus emerged on China’s successes and failures and to assess how knowledge of the Chinese system influenced the Enlightenment Shedding light on contemporary debates on the rise of the west and the Great Divergence from a historical vantage point, A Singular Case offers striking observations on Western views of early modern China.
Eastern Magnificence European Ingenuity
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Author : Catherine Pagani
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2001
Eastern Magnificence European Ingenuity written by Catherine Pagani and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries
The Last Embassy
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Author : Tonio Andrade
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-06
The Last Embassy written by Tonio Andrade and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06 with History categories.
"In the typical narrative of modern Sino-European relations, George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role. His failure to open China to trade and diplomatic relations with Britain sets the stage for a long and bitter clash of cultures that led to the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and perhaps even to the mistrust that still pervades relations today. In this book, Tonio Andrade draws on a wealth of neglected archival material to tell a very different story: that of the last European delegation that was ever received in the traditional Chinese court, the Dutch mission of 1794-95"--
Britain S Second Embassy To China
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Author : Caroline Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2021-02-01
Britain S Second Embassy To China written by Caroline Stevenson and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-01 with History categories.
Lord Amherst’s diplomatic mission to the Qing Court in 1816 was the second British embassy to China. The first led by Lord Macartney in 1793 had failed to achieve its goals. It was thought that Amherst had better prospects of success, but the intense diplomatic encounter that greeted his arrival ended badly. Amherst never appeared before the Jiaqing emperor and his embassy was expelled from Peking on the day it arrived. Historians have blamed Amherst for this outcome, citing his over-reliance on the advice of his Second Commissioner, Sir George Thomas Staunton, not to kowtow before the emperor. Detailed analysis of British sources reveal that Amherst was well informed on the kowtow issue and made his own decision for which he took full responsibility. Success was always unlikely because of irreconcilable differences in approach. China’s conduct of foreign relations based on the tributary system required submission to the emperor, thus relegating all foreign emissaries and the rulers they represented to vassal status, whereas British diplomatic practice was centred on negotiation and Westphalian principles of equality between nations. The Amherst embassy’s failure revised British assessments of China and led some observers to believe that force, rather than diplomacy, might be required in future to achieve British goals. The Opium War of 1840 that followed set a precedent for foreign interference in China, resulting in a century of ‘humiliation’. This resonates today in President Xi Jinping’s call for ‘National Rejuvenation’ to restore China’s historic place at the centre of a new Sino-centric global order.
The Company And The Shogun
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Author : Adam Clulow
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-14
The Company And The Shogun written by Adam Clulow and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with History categories.
The Dutch East India Company was a unique, hybrid organization acting as both company and state, aggressively intervening in Asian political matters in which it had no place. This study focuses on the company’s clashes with Tokugawa Japan in the seventeenth century, particularly in the areas of diplomacy, sovereignty, and violence. In each encounter, the Dutch were forced to abandon claims to sovereign powers and refashion themselves—from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun, from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent defenders of colonial rule to legal subjects of the Tokugawa state. The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company as more than a commercial enterprise, this text offers unprecedented perspective on one of the most important, long-lasting unions between an Asian state and a European overseas enterprise and the surprisingly limited influence of Europeans operating in early-modern Asia.