具体描述
What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms.
The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision of imperial will and competing interests, rather than the civilizational attributes of existing nations and cultures, led to the invention of "China," "the East," "the West," and the modern notion of "the world" in recent history. Drawing on her archival research and comparative analyses of English--and Chinese--language texts, as well as their respective translations, she explores how the rhetoric of barbarity and civilization, friend and enemy, and discourses on sovereign rights, injury, and dignity were a central part of British imperial warfare. Exposing the military and philological--and almost always translingual--nature of the clash of empires, this book provides a startlingly new interpretation of modern imperial history.
作者简介
Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan.
目录信息
1 The Semiotic Turn of International Politics
2 The Birth of a Super-Sign
3 Figuring Sovereignty
4 Translating International Law
5 The Secret of Her Greatness
6 The Sovereign Subject of Grammar
Conclusion: The Emperor’s Empty Throne
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读后感
刘禾的书研究的是符号在跨语言的过程中发生变化，以观察帝国的碰撞，具体而言是近代中西方的冲突历史。现在我主要读了第一、二、三章。 刘禾说这本书是她在翻阅大量鸦片战争时期的外交公文时获得的灵感。在第二三章中，她选择了一个汉字中的“夷”作为论点，其实用她的方法论，...
评分这本书的内容是关于“19世纪以来围绕主权想象的跨文化知识传统和话语政治”。与很多近代史研究的著作不同，它的关注点放在了语言等表意符号上的政治碰撞——“跨语际”的主权想象和冲突上面。 该书所着重分析的几个符号事件，如衍指符号“夷/i/barbarian”的创造、《新约全书...
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评分有些点真的很厉害啊。非常喜欢The Secret of Her Greatness那一章。
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评分帝国大碰撞 人类这种生物超过三人的团体就要clash来clash去 而且是先“声”夺人配合背后捅刀 Discourse不建立 怎么谈“生意”?
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