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Book SynopsisLooks at the initial confrontation of the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain from a historical perspective informed by the insights of contemporary postcolonial criticism and cultural studies.
Trade Review"
Cherishing Men From Afar, extremely impressive in its marshalling of basic Qing material, accomplishes something quite remarkable: the product of a postmodern critical sensibility, it will also satisfy the most traditional of scholars on sinological grounds."—William T. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University
"James Hevia persuasively suggests a whole new way of viewing not just the Macartney embassy but the entire subject of Sino-Western interaction from the eighteenth century to the present.
Cherishing Men from Afar deserves to be read by the widest spectrum of historians."—Paul A. Cohen, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
