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Liberals and barbariansions, galleries, temples, pagodas, libraries, audience halls, and so on. Yet Yuanmingyuan was not only a set of buildings but also a set of gardens filled with trees, flowers, lakes, streams, man-made mountains, and much else besides. The Europeans called it a “summer palace,” but this is not correc

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An Imperial Theme Parkf connected gardens with trees, lakes, streams, gorges, ponds, fountains, man-made hills, and gigantic rock formations. In addition, there was a large collection of buildings— some 40 acres of man-made structures—including palaces, temples, shrines, pagodas, pavilions, terraces, gazebos, galleries,

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The North China Campaign of 1860d to impress every one with the greatness of our power,” wrote Garnet Wolseley, “and to awake feelings of pride in the breast of the most stony-hearted Briton.” . They were all “fine, handsome, stalwart fellows,” James Hope Grant, the general in command of the British troops, concluded, “well dresse

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An International Society of Civilized Statesr more civilized than they were previously. For example, they began making war in more civilized ways, drawing a clear distinction between soldiers and civilians and between military and nonmilitary targets. While soldiers could be attacked, civilians could not, and combatants who failed to respect

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The Failure of the Liberal Projectto answer this question is to return to the simple-minded syllogism that we briefly discussed above: to change is to make progress, to make progress is to be modern, and to be modern is to be civilized. Putting liberalism at the head of this chain of deductions, we could say that the liberal project

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A Palace in a Dream. In Europe, states were regarded as sovereign and as formally equal and the system as a whole as anarchical and without central authority. In East Asia relations between states were explicitly inegalitarian and hierarchical, with the Chinese empire and the emperor firmly located at the center of th