Liberal Barbarism

Name: Liberal Barbarism
Brand: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
SKU: 9781137268914
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The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China

Автор: Erik Ringmar

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

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This work explains why British and French armies destroyed Yuanmingyuan, the imperial palace north-w...

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Автор

Erik Ringmar

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2015

страници

258

EAN

9781137268914

ISBN

1137268913

Enbook ID

09501831

Издател

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Теглоt

392

Размери

153 x 229 x 19

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This work explains why British and French armies destroyed Yuanmingyuan, the imperial palace north-west of Beijing in 1860. Yuanmingyuan was the main residence of the Chinese emperors, a large collection of gardens and buildings filled with precious objects, together representing the imperial view of the world. The intellectual puzzle which the book addresses concerns why the Europeans, bent on "civilizing" the Chinese, engaged in this act of barbarism. The answer is provided through an analysis of the performative aspect of the confrontation between Europe and China, focusing on the differences in the way their respective international systems were conceptualized. The destruction of Yuanmingyuan was the European's attempt to strike the Chinese with awe and force them to give up their way of organizing international relations. The contradictions which the events of 1860 exemplify - the contradiction between civilization and barbarism - is a theme running through all European (and North American) relations with the rest of the world, including, most recently, the US war in Iraq.

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