Cherishing Men from Afar：Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793

JamesHeviaProfessoroftheCollege,theNewCollegiateDivision,andInternationalHistoryDirector,GlobalStudiesProgramPhD1986TheUniversityofChicagoJamesHevia'sresearchhasfocusedonempireandimperialismineasternandcentralAsia.PrimarilydealingwiththeBritishEmpireinIndiaandsoutheastAsiaandtheQingempireinChina,thespecificconcernshavebeenwiththecausesandjustificationsforconflict;howempireinAsiabecamenormalizedwithinEuropethroughmarkets,exhibitions,andvariousformsofpublicmedia;andhowtheeventsofthenineteenthcenturyarerememberedincontemporaryChina.BothCherishingMenfromAfar(1995)andEnglishLessons(2003)focusontheseissues.SubsequentresearchhascenteredonhowtheBritishinIndiadevelopedandbecamedependentupontheproductionofusefulknowledgeaboutpopulationsandgeographytomaintaintheirAsianempire.ThefirstpartofthisprojectdealswithmilitaryintelligenceandappearsinTheImperialSecurityState(2012).Thesecondpartoftheprojectaddressesmilitarylogistics,theusesofpackanimalsinwarfare,andthephysicaltransformationofthePunjabasaresourceforsupportingasecurityregimeinnorthwestIndia.PublicationsTheImperialSecurityState:BritishColonialKnowledgeandEmpire-buildinginAsia.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2012.YingguodeKeye:ShijiuShijiZhongguodeDiguoZhuyiJiaocheng(EnglishLessons).TranslatedbyLiuTianlu.Beijing:Shehuikexuewenxianchubanshe,2007.EnglishLessons:ThePedagogyofImperialisminNineteenth-CenturyChina.Durham,NC:DukeUniversityPressandHongKongUniversityPress,2003.CherishingMenfromAfar:QingGuestRitualandtheMacartneyEmbassyof1793.Durham,NC:DukeUniversityPress,1995.Chinesetranslation:Huairouyuanren.Beijing:SocialSciencesPublishingHouse,2002.Winnerofthe1997JosephR.LevensonBookPrize,AssociationforAsianStudies."Tribute,Asymmetry,andImperialFormations:RethinkingRelationsofPowerinEastAsia."InPastandPresentinChina'sForeignPolicy,editedbyJohnE.Wills.Portland,MN:MerwinAsia,2011."SmallWarsandCounterinsurgency."InAnthropologyandGlobalCounterinsurgency,editedbyJohnD.Kellyetal.,169–177.Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,2010."Tribute,Asymmetry,andImperialFormations:RethinkingRelationsofPowerinEastAsia."JournalofAmerican-EastAsianRelations,specialedition,From"TributeSystem"to"PeacefulRise":AmericanHistorians,PoliticalScientists,andPolicyAnalystsDiscussChina'sForeignRelations16,no.1–2(Spring–Summer2009):69–83."'Theultimategestureofdeferenceanddebasement':KowtowinginChina."ThePoliticsofGesture:HistoricalPerspectives203(2009):212–234."ThePhotographyComplex:ExposingBoxerChina,MakingCivilization(1900–1901)."InPhotographiesEast:TheCameraanditsHistoriesinEastandSoutheastAsia,editedbyRosalindMorris,79–119.Durham,NC:DukeUniversityPress,2009."Plunder,Markets,andMuseums:TheBiographiesofChineseImperialObjectsinEuropeandNorthAmerica."InWhat’stheUseofArt?AsianVisualandMaterialCultureinContext,editedbyMorganPitlka,29–141.Honolulu:UniversityofHawai’iPress,2007."RulershipandTibetanBuddhisminEighteenth-CenturyChina:QingEmperors,LamasandAudienceRituals."InMedievalandEarlyModernRituals:FormalizedBehaviorintheEastandWest,editedbyJoelleRollo-Koster,279–302Leiden:E.J.Brill,2002."WorldHeritage,NationalCulture,andtheRestorationofChengde."Positions9,no.1(2001):219–244."LootingBeijing,1860,1900."InTokensofExchange,editedbyLydiaLiu,192–213.DurhamNC:DukeUniversityPress,1999."TheArchiveStateandtheFearofPollution:FromtheOpiumWarstoFu-Manchu."CulturalStudies12,no.2(1998):234–264."LeavingaBrandonChina."InFormationsofColonialModernityinEastAsia,editedbyTaniE.Barlow,113–140.Durham,NC:DukeUniversityPress,1997."ImperialGuestRitual:ATranslationandIntroductoryComments."InReligionsofChina,editedbyDonaldLopez,471–487.Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversityPress,1996."AnImperialNomadandtheGreatGame:ThomasFrancisWadeinChina."LateImperialChina16,no.2(1995):1–22.