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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在中国古代文书典籍中，华夷这个词具有丰富的含义。我对此做了一定的总结，如下： 1. 政治地理概念。出自《周礼》职方氏，王畿之外分九服，夷服去王国七千里。华的含义就是中央行政区。这不单单是简单的地理概念，而是政治地理概念。华就是中央政权所在地。中国古代按照...
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感谢！
评分第二章和第三章关于yi在中英条约的探讨很不错，但后面的章节略散乱，没有很好地展开argument，更多的是事实的罗列～
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”?
评分这个俺读过。 论翻译那章还是挺好看的。
评分没读完没读完，来不及
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