Qing Travelers to the Far West —— Diplomacy And The Information Order In Late Imperial China

----- 去遥远的西方旅人：清晚期帝制中国的外交和信息秩序

ISBN: 9781108569019 出版年：2018 页码：286 Jenny Huangfu Day Cambridge University Press

Prior to the nineteenth century, the west occupied an anomalous space in the chinese imagination, populated by untamable barbarians and unearthly immortals. First-hand accounts and correspondence from qing envoys and diplomats to europe unraveled that perception. In this path-breaking study, jenny huangfu day interweaves the history of qing legation-building with the personal stories of china's first official travelers, envoys and diplomats to europe.爏he explores how diplomat-travelers navigated the conceptual and physical space of a land virtually unmapped in the chinese intellectual tradition and created a new information order. This study reveals the fluidity, heterogeneity, and ambivalence of their experience, and the layers of tension between thinking, writing, and publishing about the west.