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Liberal Barbarism

The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China

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Palgrave Macmillan


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Cultural Sociology

Paru le : 2013-09-18



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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.
Pages
258 pages
Collection
Cultural Sociology
Parution
2013-09-18
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9781137268907
EAN PDF
9781137031600
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2
Nombre pages imprimables
25
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7178 Ko
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