E. Ringmar: Liberal Barbarism | Buch

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Cover: 9781137268907 | Liberal Barbarism | E. Ringmar | Buch | vii | Englisch | 2013

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Beschreibung

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 their respective international systems were conceptualized. Ringmar reveals that the destruction of Yuanmingyuan represented the Europeans' campaign to "shock and awe" the Chinese, thereby forcing them to give up their way of organizing international relations. The contradictions which the events of 1860 exemplify - the contradiction between civilization and barbarism - is a theme running through all European (and North American) relations with the rest of the world since, including, most recently, the US war in Iraq.

Über den Autor

Erik Ringmar is Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden.

Zusammenfassung

INTERNATIONAL: Addresses Chinese-Western relations

TIMELY: Sino-Western relations, while historically political, are entering a new phase of cultural and social relations.

UNIQUE: the book concerns a major historical event never before treated in a one-volume work.

WEALTH OF NEW PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: the research introduces new, original, sources not used by previous scholars.

NEW APPROACH: the conclusions provide a new way of thinking about European/American relations with the rest of the world.

MAJOR AUTHOR: Ringmar is very well-respected in his field and quite prolific.

RE-CONCEIVES ISSUES: the intellectual framework introduces a new way of conceptualizing international relations.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: INTRODUCTION Liberals and Barbarians An Awesome Performance PART II: THE DESTRUCTION OF YUANMINGYUAN An Imperial Theme Park The North China Campaign of 1860 Enter the Barbarians PART III: LIBERAL BARBARIANS Assembling the Liberal Script Performing the Liberal Script War in the Age of Sensation Striking the Chinese with Awe PART IV: CONCLUSION An Eternal Object

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	258
Inhalt:	vii 258 S.
ISBN-13:	9781137268907
ISBN-10:	1137268905
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Ringmar, E.
Auflage:	2013 edition
Hersteller:	Springer New York Palgrave Macmillan
Maße:	239 x 160 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	E. Ringmar
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.2013
Gewicht:	0,617 kg

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