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Qing travellers to the Far West : diplomacy and the information order in late imperial China / Jenny Huangfu Day.
Van Pelt Library DS754.18 .D39 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Day, Jenny Huangfu, 1985- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zeng, Jize, 1839-1890--Travel--Western countries.
- Zeng, Jize.
- Guo, Songtao, 1818-1891--Travel--Western countries.
- Guo, Songtao.
- Xue, Fucheng, 1838-1894--Travel--Western countries.
- Xue, Fucheng.
- Guo, Songtao, 1818-1891.
- Xue, Fucheng, 1838-1894.
- Zeng, Jize, 1839-1890.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Travel.
- China--Foreign relations--1644-1912.
- China.
- International relations.
- Travelers' writings, Chinese.
- Diplomats--China--History--19th century.
- Diplomats.
- History.
- Europe--Foreign public opinion, Chinese.
- Europe.
- United States--Foreign public opinion, Chinese.
- United States.
- Elite (Social sciences)--China--Attitudes.
- China--Intellectual life--1644-1912.
- Intellectual life.
- Public opinion--China.
- Public opinion.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Attitudes.
- Public opinion, Chinese.
- Western countries.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, the countries of Europe were populated by untamable barbarians and unearthly immortals in the Chinese imagination. Firsthand Chinese accounts of Europe unraveled this perception"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The traveler
- The envoy
- The student
- The scholar
- The diplomat
- The strategist
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1. Zhigang's passage on the White House visit in the 1877 and 1890 editions
- Appendix 2: Selected passages that appeared in the Chushi taixi jiyao (1890) but not in the Chushi taixi ji (1877)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108471329
- 1108471323
- OCLC:
- 1052906461
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