{"product_id":"qing-travelers-to-the-far-west-diplomacy-and-the-information-order-in-late-imperial-china-hardback-9781108471329","title":"Qing Travelers to the Far West; Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China (Hardback) 9781108471329","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eQing Travelers to the Far West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDiplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis fundamentally new interpretation of the Qing reveals how Sino-Western engagements transformed traditions, institutions, and networks of communications.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJenny Huangfu Day (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108471329, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 December 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages, 12 b\/w illus.  1 table\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Delightful. Highly recommended. All academic levels.' Kristin Stapleton, Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrior to the nineteenth century, the West occupied an anomalous space in the Chinese imagination, populated by untamable barbarians and unearthly immortals. First-hand accounts and correspondence from Qing envoys and diplomats to Europe unraveled that perception. In this path-breaking study, Jenny Huangfu Day interweaves the history of Qing legation-building with the personal stories of China's first official travelers, envoys and diplomats to Europe. She explores how diplomat-travelers navigated the conceptual and physical space of a land virtually unmapped in the Chinese intellectual tradition and created a new information order. This study reveals the fluidity, heterogeneity, and ambivalence of their experience, and the layers of tension between thinking, writing, and publishing about the West. By integrating diplomatic and intellectual history with literary analysis and communication studies, Day offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the Qing's engagement with the West.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The traveler\u003cbr\u003e 2. The envoy\u003cbr\u003e 3. The student\u003cbr\u003e 4. The scholar\u003cbr\u003e 5. The diplomat\u003cbr\u003e 6. The strategist\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. Zhigang's passage on the White House visit in the 1877 and 1890 editions\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Selected passages that appeared in the Chushi taixi jiyao (1890) but not in the Chushi taixi ji (1877)\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266309148952,"sku":"9781108471329","price":88.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108471329i.jpg?v=1696702492","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/qing-travelers-to-the-far-west-diplomacy-and-the-information-order-in-late-imperial-china-hardback-9781108471329","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}