Liberal Barbarism
The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China
In Liberal Barbarism, Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace north-west of Beijing - at the hands of British and French armies. Yuanmingyuan was the emperor's own theme-park, a perfect world, a vision of paradise, which housed one of the greatest collections of works of art ever assembled. 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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-03160-0
- EAN: 9781137031600
- Produktnummer: 17022757
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 7'399 KB
- Auflage: 2013
- Abbildungen: Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Erik Ringmar is Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden.
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