华侨史视野下的“蒲安臣条约”

对于“蒲安臣条约”的评价，历来众说纷纭。本试图从华侨史的角度来审视其对清代侨务政策、华工入美、近代留学生及美国“排华”等重大事件的客观影响，重构其在这一视野下的“历史形象”。     

蒲安臣使团再认识

蒲安臣是一位绝无仅有的既担任过美国驻华公使又担任中国首位使节的美国人。对于蒲安臣以及蒲安臣使团,以往一些学者从阶级斗争的角度予以批判。然从新史料中发掘新意,对蒲安臣使团应予以新的认识和评价——蒲安臣在中国近代史上具有一定积极意义:它促进了西方国家对中国的了解,沟通了中西间交流和往来;促使了中国传统礼仪制度向近代外交礼仪制度的转变;也为清政府赢得了十几年的太平岁月。     

Imperial Plots? Shugborough,Chinoiserie and Imperial Ideology in Eighteenth-Century British Gardens

This article examines the place of the Chinese House (c. 1748) at Shugborough, Staffordshire, within the context of the mid-eighteenth-century craze for chinoiserie architecture in British gardens, and within the longer history of Sino-British encounters more generally. Drawing on evidence from published and archival sources, it argues that the expression of imperial ideology manifest in the garden at Shugborough represents an exceptional case for the period, during which more nuanced and ambivalent attitudes towards Britain's expanding presence in Asia generally prevailed. Attention is drawn to the need to locate the specific social settings of art objects within their wider historical contexts.