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In this deeply informed and closely argued book, Jenny Huangfu Day rewrites the history of Chinese diplomatic interaction with the West in the late Qing. Since there was no single China or fixed, internally consistent West, Chinese diplomat-travelers found, not surprisingly, that the West they discovered and wrote about closely mirrored the divergent views they themselves represented. Paul A. Cohen, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University In Day's rich and readable account, nineteenth century Chinese intellectuals are no longer one-dimensional monitors of Western wonders, but complex and fully human individuals articulating nuanced understanding of their tradition and the world around them. Her work is certain to change pedagogical practice, and received understanding of nineteenth century Chinese intellectual history. R. Kent Guy, University of Washington This important study offers a tantalizing glimpse of 'the West' seen through the eyes of the Qing dynasty's earliest diplomatic representatives to Europe. Day meticulously reconstructs the rich cognitive universe of these figures and demonstrates that the very act of perceiving 'the other' changed with the emergence of a new information order after 1860. Stephen Halsey, University of Miami

Advance praise: 'In this deeply informed and closely argued book, Jenny Huangfu Day rewrites the history of Chinese diplomatic interaction with the West in the late Qing. Since there was no single China or fixed, internally consistent West, Chinese diplomat-travelers found, not surprisingly, that the West they discovered and wrote about closely mirrored the divergent views they themselves represented.' Paul A. Cohen, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Advance praise: 'In Day's rich and readable account, nineteenth-century Chinese intellectuals are no longer one-dimensional monitors of Western wonders, but complex and fully human individuals articulating nuanced understanding of their tradition and the world around them. Her work is certain to change pedagogical practice, and received understanding of nineteenth century Chinese intellectual history.' R. Kent Guy, University of Washington Advance praise: 'This important study offers a tantalizing glimpse of 'the West' seen through the eyes of the Qing dynasty's earliest diplomatic representatives to Europe. Day meticulously reconstructs the rich cognitive universe of these figures and demonstrates that the very act of perceiving 'the other' changed with the emergence of a new information order after 1860.' Stephen Halsey, University of Miami Advance praise: `In this deeply informed and closely argued book, Jenny Huangfu Day rewrites the history of Chinese diplomatic interaction with the West in the late Qing. Since there was no single China or fixed, internally consistent West, Chinese diplomat-travelers found, not surprisingly, that the West they discovered and wrote about closely mirrored the divergent views they themselves represented.' Paul A. Cohen, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Advance praise: `In Day's rich and readable account, nineteenth-century Chinese intellectuals are no longer one-dimensional monitors of Western wonders, but complex and fully human individuals articulating nuanced understanding of their tradition and the world around them. Her work is certain to change pedagogical practice, and received understanding of nineteenth century Chinese intellectual history.' R. Kent Guy, University of Washington Advance praise: `This important study offers a tantalizing glimpse of `the West' seen through the eyes of the Qing dynasty's earliest diplomatic representatives to Europe. Day meticulously reconstructs the rich cognitive universe of these figures and demonstrates that the very act of perceiving `the other' changed with the emergence of a new information order after 1860.' Stephen Halsey, University of Miami

Advance praise: 'In this deeply informed and closely argued book, Jenny Huangfu Day rewrites the history of Chinese diplomatic interaction with the West in the late Qing. Since there was no single China or fixed, internally consistent West, Chinese diplomat-travelers found, not surprisingly, that the West they discovered and wrote about closely mirrored the divergent views they themselves represented.' Paul A. Cohen, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Advance praise: 'In Day's rich and readable account, nineteenth-century Chinese intellectuals are no longer one-dimensional monitors of Western wonders, but complex and fully human individuals articulating nuanced understanding of their tradition and the world around them. Her work is certain to change pedagogical practice, and received understanding of nineteenth century Chinese intellectual history.' R. Kent Guy, University of Washington Advance praise: 'This important study offers a tantalizing glimpse of 'the West' seen through the eyes of the Qing dynasty's earliest diplomatic representatives to Europe. Day meticulously reconstructs the rich cognitive universe of these figures and demonstrates that the very act of perceiving 'the other' changed with the emergence of a new information order after 1860.' Stephen Halsey, University of Miami

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Jenny Huangfu Day is Assistant Professor of History at Skidmore College, New York.

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