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English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China

English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China

Hevia, James L.

Paperback

Chinese HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0822331888
ISBN13: 9780822331889
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Dec 15 2003
Pages: 387
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great Britain enacted a pedagogical project that was itself a form of colonization, James L. Hevia demonstrates how British actors instructed the Manchu-Chinese elite on proper behavior in a world dominated by multiple imperial powers. Their aim was to bring China low and make it a willing participant in British strategic goals in Asia. These lessons not only transformed the Qing dynasty but ultimately contributed to its destruction.

Hevia analyzes British Foreign Office documents, diplomatic memoirs, auction house and museum records, nineteenth-century scholarly analyses of Chinese history and culture, campaign records, and photographs. He shows how Britain refigured its imperial project in

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