James L Hevia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James L Hevia |
| GIVEN NAMES | James L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hevia |
| SIGNATURE | HEVIA J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Image Making, written by Ying-Chen Peng
The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
Mr. Smith Goes to China: Three Scots in the Making of Britain’s Global Empire
Nivi Manchanda. Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge
After hundreds of drone strikes and twenty-years of nation-building projects, Afghanistan remains a puzzle for the vast majority of Americans and their allies in the “war on terror.” How could all those resources—the best intentions of civilian officials, think-tank experts, military counterinsurgents, and NGO activists, along with much high-tech battlefield equipment—result in nothing but another Taliban takeover of the country? In Imagining Afg…
Imperial Guest Ritual
What's the Use of Art?: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context
Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously beautiful, universal, and devoid of any practical purpose. The authors of this multidisciplinary volume seek to complicate this understanding of art by examining art objects from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. From tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony to television br…
Image/Text: Text/Image
The Visualizing Culture controversy demonstrated the ongoing struggle in East Asia over the meaning of the twentieth-century conflicts between Japan and neighboring countries. Critics demanded that the images of Japanese and Qing soldiers required narrative context, but narratives differ substantially in Japan as opposed to its former colonies. The controversy also points to the explosion in publications and on the Web of visual imagery from the …
The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900–1901), Making Civilization
Negotiating Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform
Tribute, Asymmetry, and Imperial Formations: Rethinking Relations of Power in East Asia
In organizing the conference “History and China's Foreign Relations, ” John Wills set two difficult tasks for the participants. The first was to consider the role of the academy in U.S. policy-making toward China and surmise whether academics were more influential in John Fairbank's day than today. The second involved a consideration of the models or theoretical constructs used for characterizing China's relations with other countries. Although t…
The Ultimate Gesture of Deference and Debasement: Kowtowing in China
The kowtow, kotow, or ketou 2 —the act of kneeling and bowing the head to the ground—has long stood, for British and American diplomats and scholars, at the very centre of the controversy about relations between China and the West. For much of the nineteenth century scandalized diplomats and observers from afar gestured to the act as what separated the semi-civilized China empire from the high civilization of independently sovereign European nati…
English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China
World Heritage, National Culture, and the Restoration of Chengde
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2001
Through the Consul's Eye
Through the Consul's Eye. 1999. 50 minutes. Directed by Jorge Amat. Distributed by First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court Street, 21st floor, Brooklyn, N.Y., USA 11201. 718‐488‐8900, [email protected]
Looting Beijing: 1860, 1900
The Archive State and the Fear of Pollution: From the Opium Wars to Fu-Manchu
This article considers the relationship between the production of a British imperial archive on China and the global politics of empire over the last century and a half. Drawing upon the theoretical work of Bruno Latour, Gayatri Spivak and Thomas Richards,the archive is explored as a coherent set of material practices designed to decode and recode China and other colonized territories. Imagined as an interface between knowledge and the state, the…
Postpolemical Historiography: A Response to Joseph W. Esherick
In the previous issue of this journal, Joseph Esherick (1998) launched a critique of my book Cherishing Men from Afar (1995). In addition to pointing out errors in the glossary and questioning some translations of Qing sources,' he took issue with my interpretation of the embassy; he seems to feel that the conventional understanding of the Macartney mission, usually filtered through John K. Fairbank's tribute system analysis of traditional sino-f…
Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793.
Cherishing Men From Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and The Macartney Embassy of 1793
Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China
Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Daur Mongols
Religions of China in Practice
This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the three of China - Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes added) - are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. The volume also illustrates some of the many interactions between Han culture and the cultures designated by the current government as minorities. Selections from minority cult…
Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793
In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time—the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion was the mission of Lord Macartney, sent by the British crown and sponsored by the East India Company, to the court of the Qianlong emperor. Cherishing Men from Afar looks at the initial confrontation between these two empires from a historical perspective informed …
An Imperial Nomad and the Great Game: Thomas Francis Wade in China
AN IMPERIAL NOMAD AND THE GREAT GAME: THOMAS FRANCIS WADE IN CHINA* James L. Hevia In the second half of the nineteenth century, Great Britain was engaged in strategic warfare on the Asian land mass. This was not a shooting war, but a cold war, a war of position designed to check or contain imperial Russia and protect British interests that stretched from the Caucasus, around the southern edges of Eurasia, to the eastern provinces of China. In th…
Loot's fate1: The economy of plunder and the moral life of objects “From the summer palace of the emperor of China
World Heritage, National Culture, and the Restoration of Chengde
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2001
Culture and Postwar American Historiagraphy of China
Research Article| May 01 1993 Culture and Postwar American Historiagraphy of China Judith B. Farquhar; Judith B. Farquhar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google James L. Hevia James L. Hevia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1993) 1 (2): 486–525. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1-2-486 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Judith B. Farquhar, James L. Hevi…
Tribute, Asymmetry, and Imperial Formations: Rethinking Relations of Power in East Asia
In organizing the conference “History and China's Foreign Relations, ” John Wills set two difficult tasks for the participants. The first was to consider the role of the academy in U.S. policy-making toward China and surmise whether academics were more influential in John Fairbank's day than today. The second involved a consideration of the models or theoretical constructs used for characterizing China's relations with other countries. Although t…
Making China 'Perfectly Equal'1
This article focuses on activities undertaken by western powers in Beijing following the relief of the legations in 1900. Beginning with a description of actions specifically directed at the Chinese emperor and designed to bring low a sovereignty that was already in disarray, it then considers ways in which the emperor was reconstituted as a sovereign similar to European kings. Alterations made to Manchu-Chinese imperial court audience in the Box…
Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Daur Mongols
Leaving a Brand on China: Missionary Discourse in the Wake of the Boxer Movement
Postpolemical Historiography: A Response to Joseph W. Esherick
In the previous issue of this journal, Joseph Esherick (1998) launched a critique of my book Cherishing Men from Afar (1995). In addition to pointing out errors in the glossary and questioning some translations of Qing sources,' he took issue with my interpretation of the embassy; he seems to feel that the conventional understanding of the Macartney mission, usually filtered through John K. Fairbank's tribute system analysis of traditional sino-f…
Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China
The Scandal of Inequality: Koutou as Signifier
Research Article| February 01 1995 The Scandal of Inequality: Koutou as Signifier James L. Hevia James L. Hevia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1995) 3 (1): 97–118. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-3-1-97 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James L. Hevia; The Scandal of Inequality: Koutou as Signifier. positions 1 February 1995; 3 (1): 97–118. doi…
A Multitude of Lords: Qing Court Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793
Vol. 10, No. 2 Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1989 A MULTITUDE OF LORDS: QING COURT RITUAL AND THE MACARTNEY EMBASSY OF 1793* James L. Hevia In 1793, the 58th year of the Qianlong emperor's reign, the king of England , George III, sent an embassy to China under the direction of George Lord Macartney, for the purpose of negotiating alterations in the condition of relations between Great Britain and the Qing empire. On September 14, 1793, Lord Macartn…
Making China 'Perfectly Equal'1
This article focuses on activities undertaken by western powers in Beijing following the relief of the legations in 1900. Beginning with a description of actions specifically directed at the Chinese emperor and designed to bring low a sovereignty that was already in disarray, it then considers ways in which the emperor was reconstituted as a sovereign similar to European kings. Alterations made to Manchu-Chinese imperial court audience in the Box…
Leaving a Brand on China: Missionary Discourse in the Wake of the Boxer Movement
History, Theory, and Colonial Power: The Critical Method of Michael Taussig in Shamanism, Colonialism, and The Wild Man
Culture and Postwar American Historiagraphy of China
Research Article| May 01 1993 Culture and Postwar American Historiagraphy of China Judith B. Farquhar; Judith B. Farquhar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google James L. Hevia James L. Hevia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1993) 1 (2): 486–525. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1-2-486 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Judith B. Farquhar, James L. Hevi…
Loot's fate1: The economy of plunder and the moral life of objects “From the summer palace of the emperor of China
Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793
In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time—the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion was the mission of Lord Macartney, sent by the British crown and sponsored by the East India Company, to the court of the Qianlong emperor. Cherishing Men from Afar looks at the initial confrontation between these two empires from a historical perspective informed …
An Imperial Nomad and the Great Game: Thomas Francis Wade in China
AN IMPERIAL NOMAD AND THE GREAT GAME: THOMAS FRANCIS WADE IN CHINA* James L. Hevia In the second half of the nineteenth century, Great Britain was engaged in strategic warfare on the Asian land mass. This was not a shooting war, but a cold war, a war of position designed to check or contain imperial Russia and protect British interests that stretched from the Caucasus, around the southern edges of Eurasia, to the eastern provinces of China. In th…
The Scandal of Inequality: Koutou as Signifier
Research Article| February 01 1995 The Scandal of Inequality: Koutou as Signifier James L. Hevia James L. Hevia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1995) 3 (1): 97–118. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-3-1-97 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James L. Hevia; The Scandal of Inequality: Koutou as Signifier. positions 1 February 1995; 3 (1): 97–118. doi…
Marginal Sights: Staging the Chinese in America
Gender and China Studies
A Review Article of CHRISTINA K. GILMARTIN, GAIL HERSHATTER, LISA ROFEL, TYRENE WHITE, eds., Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press [Harvard Contemporary China Series, 10, 1994, £ 18.25/$ 27.50 paperback/£ 39.95/$ 59.95 hardback]
Religions of China in Practice
This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the three of China - Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes added) - are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. The volume also illustrates some of the many interactions between Han culture and the cultures designated by the current government as minorities. Selections from minority cult…
Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793.
Cherishing Men From Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and The Macartney Embassy of 1793
Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China
Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Daur Mongols
The Archive State and the Fear of Pollution: From the Opium Wars to Fu-Manchu
This article considers the relationship between the production of a British imperial archive on China and the global politics of empire over the last century and a half. Drawing upon the theoretical work of Bruno Latour, Gayatri Spivak and Thomas Richards,the archive is explored as a coherent set of material practices designed to decode and recode China and other colonized territories. Imagined as an interface between knowledge and the state, the…
Postpolemical Historiography: A Response to Joseph W. Esherick
In the previous issue of this journal, Joseph Esherick (1998) launched a critique of my book Cherishing Men from Afar (1995). In addition to pointing out errors in the glossary and questioning some translations of Qing sources,' he took issue with my interpretation of the embassy; he seems to feel that the conventional understanding of the Macartney mission, usually filtered through John K. Fairbank's tribute system analysis of traditional sino-f…
Looting Beijing: 1860, 1900
World Heritage, National Culture, and the Restoration of Chengde
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2001
Through the Consul's Eye
Through the Consul's Eye. 1999. 50 minutes. Directed by Jorge Amat. Distributed by First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court Street, 21st floor, Brooklyn, N.Y., USA 11201. 718‐488‐8900, [email protected]
English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China
Negotiating Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform
Tribute, Asymmetry, and Imperial Formations: Rethinking Relations of Power in East Asia
In organizing the conference “History and China's Foreign Relations, ” John Wills set two difficult tasks for the participants. The first was to consider the role of the academy in U.S. policy-making toward China and surmise whether academics were more influential in John Fairbank's day than today. The second involved a consideration of the models or theoretical constructs used for characterizing China's relations with other countries. Although t…
The Ultimate Gesture of Deference and Debasement: Kowtowing in China
The kowtow, kotow, or ketou 2 —the act of kneeling and bowing the head to the ground—has long stood, for British and American diplomats and scholars, at the very centre of the controversy about relations between China and the West. For much of the nineteenth century scandalized diplomats and observers from afar gestured to the act as what separated the semi-civilized China empire from the high civilization of independently sovereign European nati…
History (23 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (14 works) · China (13 works) · Art (12 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · History (9 works)