{"product_id":"cherishing-men-from-afar-9780822316251","title":"Cherishing Men from Afar","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooks 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCherishing Men From Afar\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003eCherishing Men from Afar \u003c\/i\u003edeserves to be read by the widest spectrum of historians.\"—Paul A. Cohen, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406016225623,"sku":"9780822316251","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822316251.jpg?v=1730494252","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cherishing-men-from-afar-9780822316251","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}