Cherishing men from afar : Qing guest ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 / James L. Hevia.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and index.
An anthropological and historical perspective of the Qing Empire Manchu rulers meeting the Macartney British embassy in China from previously untranslated Chinese sources.

Introduction -- A multitude of lords : the Qing Empire, Manchu rulership, and interdomainal relations -- Planning and organizing the British embassy -- King Solomon in all his glory : the British embassy in China -- Guest ritual and interdomainal relations -- Channeling along a centering path : greeting and preparation -- Convergence : audience, instruction, and bestowal -- Bringing affairs to a culmination -- Guest ritual and diplomacy -- From events to history : the Macartney embassy in the historiography of Sino-Western relations.

Tracing the contours of the unequal treaties in imperial China, 1840-1911 -- Implementing and contesting international law: the unequal treaties and the foreign ministry of the Beijing government, 1912-1928 -- Disseminating the rhetoric of Bupingdeng Tiaoyue 不平等條約, 1923-1927 -- Redeeming a century of national ignominy: nationalism and party rivalry over the unequal treaties, 1928-1947 -- Universalizing international law and the Chinese study of the unequal treaties: the paradox of equality and inequality -- Conclusion: defining and redefining the past.

"This study, based on primary sources, looks at the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression Unequal Treaties, which refers to the treaties China signed between 1842 and 1946. Although this expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and Chinese and English historiographies, this is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of China's encounters with the outside world as manifested in the rhetoric of the Unequal Treaties."--Jacket.

Background: revival of Russian interest in the Far East -- Traditional Chinese diplomacy in retreat: The Treaty of Aigun -- Capitulation: The Treaty of Peking -- Ethnic tensions: the Muslim uprising and Russian invasion -- Chinese diplomacy in disarray: The Treaty of Livadia -- A reprieve: The Treaty of St. Petersburg -- The apogee of Tsarist imperialism: the Chinese Eastern Railway -- Over-extension: the Boxer Uprising and the Russian invasion -- Roll-back: the Russo-Japanese War -- Mongolia: the last frontier -- Tsarist foreign policy: Mongolian autonomy and Chinese Suzerainty -- Soviet foreign policy: Mongolian independence under Soviet tutelage.

本文首次系統利用"蒙文老檔", "蒙古堂檔", 滿漢文"康熙起居註冊"等重要史料, 結合"朔漠方略", "秦邊紀略"等清代官私史籍, 在前人研究的基礎上比較全面系統和深入地探討了噶爾丹統治時期1672-1697)的準噶爾與清朝之間的政治關係, 經貿往來及軍事衝突, 力圖展現這25年清準關係的真實面貌.--OCLC record note.