[An] absorbing and resourceful book...[Liu] presents many points
that scholars of the 19th and early 20th centuries will find at
once persuasive and still reasonably fresh..."The Clash of Empires"
deserves a place in the library of every scholar of modern
China.--Pamela Kyle Crossley"Far Eastern Economic Review"
(12/01/2004)
[A] challenging book...["The Clash of Empires"] demands
attention.--Rebecca Karl"American Historical Review"
(06/01/2005)
Liu offers an innovative analysis of the relationship between
language and empire. Drawing on 'the semiotic turn of international
relations, ' she demonstrates how discourses on the meaning of
'sovereignty' shaped relations between the British Empire and China
throughout the 19th century...The study's ambitious and rewarding
interdisciplinary approach breaks new ground and will be embraced
by scholars from a variety of fields.--D. P. Gorman"Choice"
(03/01/2005)
The author of this wide-ranging and imaginative work sets out to
examine what she calls "the semiotic turn of international
politics" in the nineteenth century, as this "turn" was exemplified
in Qing China's interactions with Western imperialism...Liu is
especially good at showing not just the contingencies of the
notions that had to straddle different languages, but the
frightening human fragilities of the translational practices upon
which the fate of Sino-Western relations rested. This is a good,
and at times brilliant, book...The breadth of the text-based world
that Liu conjures up for us is stimulating.--Alexander Woodside
"Pacific Affairs "
The book meticulously explicates the ways in which traces of
imperialism of the nineteenth century still define our
international worldview. By putting China's cultural/linguistic
encounter with the British empire at the center of her examination
of the colonial legacy, [Liu] also makes a case for the relevance
of postcolonial critique to China studies...By unpacking the
psychological and moral entanglements and struggles between the
imperialists and their victims, "The Clash of Empires" takes us to
rethink the power structure that undergirds the norms of
international politics in the postcolonial world...In identifying
new issues and exploring new methodology, this book is remarkably
ambitious and has pointed contemporary scholarship's reflection on
the topic to a new direction.--Ya-pei Kuo"Chinese Historical
Review" (05/01/2005)
[A] challenging book...[ The Clash of Empires ] demands
attention.
ÝAn¨ absorbing and resourceful book...ÝLiu¨ presents many points
that scholars of the 19th and early 20th centuries will find at
once persuasive and still reasonably fresh..."The Clash of Empires"
deserves a place in the library of every scholar of modern China.
-- Pamela Kyle Crossley "Far Eastern Economic Review"
(12/01/2004)
ÝA¨ challenging book...Ý"The Clash of Empires"¨ demands attention.
-- Rebecca Karl "American Historical Review" (06/01/2005)
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