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Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China a lecture and discussion with Dr. Jenny Huangfu Day

Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China a lecture and discussion with Dr. Jenny Huangfu Day

May 13, 2021
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Zoom
Jenny Huangfu day

Prior to the nineteenth century, the West occupied an anomalous space in the Chinese imagination, populated by untamable barbarians and unearthly immortals. First- hand accounts and correspondence from Qing envoys and diplomats to Europe unraveled that perception. By integrating diplomatic and intellectual history with literary analysis and communication studies, Day offers a new interpretation of the Qing's engagement with the West.

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