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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Multitude of Lords: The Qing Empire, Manchu Rulership, and Interdomainal Relations -- 3 Planning and Organizing the British Embassy -- 4 King Solomon in All His Glory: The British Embassy in China -- 5 Guest Ritual and Interdomainal Relations -- 6 Channeling Along a Centering Path: Greeting and Preparation -- 7 Convergence: Audience, Instruction, and Bestowal -- 8 Bringing Affairs to a Culmination -- 9 Guest Ritual and Diplomacy -- 10 From Events to History: The Macartney Embassy in the Historiography of Sino- Western Relations -- Appendix -- Glossary of Chinese Characters -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index

AbstractIn organizing the conference "History and China's Foreign Relations, " John Wills set two difficult tasks for the participants. The first was to consider the role of the academy in U.S. policy-making toward China and surmise whether academics were more influential in John Fairbank's day than today. The second involved a consideration of the models or theoretical constructs used for characterizing China's relations with other countries. Although there is much to say about the relation between area studies and the state, my focus will be on the latter topic, models and theories of foreign relations.

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This article focuses on activities undertaken by western powers in Beijing following the relief of the legations in 1900. Beginning with a description of actions specifically directed at the Chinese emperor and designed to bring low a sovereignty that was already in disarray, it then considers ways in which the emperor was reconstituted as a sovereign similar to European kings. Alterations made to Manchu‐Chinese imperial court audience in the Boxer protocol of 1901 are reviewed, arguing that this rewriting imposed a representational notion of ceremony over the imperial court's constitutive version of ceremonial practice. The western assault on imperial sovereignty contributed to the demise of Qing Kingship and to a new definition of "China" and the "Chinese"

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Reprint Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires -- Section I: The Imperial Optic -- Introduction -- PART 1: EMPIRES OF THE PALETTE -- CHAPTER 1. The Walls of Images -- CHAPTER 2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science -- CHAPTER 3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette -- CHAPTER 4. Colonial Panaromania -- PART 2: THE MASS-PRINTED IMPERIUM -- CHAPTER 5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings -- CHAPTER 6. Excess in the City? The Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780-c. 1795 -- CHAPTER 7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Siècle -- PART 3: MAPPING, CLAIMING, RECLAIMING -- CHAPTER 8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity -- CHAPTER 9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700 -- CHAPTER 10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia -- PART 4: THE IMPERIAL LENS -- CHAPTER 11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900-1901), Making Civilization -- CHAPTER 12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygiene Cinema in Java -- CHAPTER 13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema -- Section II: Postcolonial Looking -- Introduction -- PART 5: SUBALTERN SEEING: AN OVERLAP OF COMPLEXITIES -- CHAPTER 14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse -- CHAPTER 15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India -- CHAPTER 16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism -- CHAPTER 17. "I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty": The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony -- CHAPTER 18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification -- PART 6: REGARDING AND RECONSTITUTING EUROPE -- CHAPTER 19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection -- CHAPTER 20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference -- CHAPTER 21. Double Dutch and the Culture Game -- Conclusion: A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality -- Contributors -- Index