Qing travelers to the Far West : diplomacy and the information order in late imperial China

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Title:

Qing travelers to the Far West : diplomacy and the information order in late imperial China

Diplomacy and the information order in late imperial China

Author:

Day, Jenny Huangfu, 1985- author.

ISBN:

9781108471329

Personal Author:

Day, Jenny Huangfu, 1985- author.

Publication Information:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Physical Description:

viii, 275 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

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)

Abstract:

"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.

Personal Subject:

Zeng, Jize, 1839-1890.-Travel-Western countries.

Guo, Songtao, 1818-1891.-Travel-Western countries.

Xue, Fucheng, 1838-1894.-Travel-Western countries.

Subject Term:

Travelers' writings, Chinese.

Elite (Social sciences) -- China -- Attitudes.

Public opinion -- China.

Geographic Term:

China -- Foreign relations -- 1644-1912.

Diplomats -- China -- History -- 19th century.

Europe -- Foreign public opinion, Chinese.