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Malice in Wonderland: Dreams of the Orient and the Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China

Malice in Wonderland: Dreams of the Orient and the Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China Abstract: This article explains the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan, the imperial palace compound located northwest of Beijing, by an Anglo-French army in 1860. Bracketing the political and military context, it looks at the ways the emperor’s palace has been interpreted in European cultural history and the ways it was understood by the people responsible for its destruction. To Europeans, the Yuanmingyuan was a place of wonder, and it was more than anything the transformation of the language of wonder that made the palace vulnerable to European aggression. Intercultural aesthetic judgments, the article concludes, always have political implications. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

Malice in Wonderland: Dreams of the Orient and the Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China

Journal of World History , Volume 22 (2) – Aug 3, 2011

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Abstract

Abstract: This article explains the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan, the imperial palace compound located northwest of Beijing, by an Anglo-French army in 1860. Bracketing the political and military context, it looks at the ways the emperor’s palace has been interpreted in European cultural history and the ways it was understood by the people responsible for its destruction. To Europeans, the Yuanmingyuan was a place of wonder, and it was more than anything the transformation of the language of wonder that made the palace vulnerable to European aggression. Intercultural aesthetic judgments, the article concludes, always have political implications.

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Journal of World HistoryUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Aug 3, 2011

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