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Asian empire and British knowledge : China and the networks of British imperial expansion
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"British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely b...
"British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Ulrike Hillemann
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- x, 262 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786612672415, 0230246753, 023020046X, 128267241X, 1349299219, 9780230200463
- OCLC
- ocn650307444, ocn461895988
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-253) and index.
- Introduction -- The decline of Mythical China -- At the China Coast -- South and Southeast Asian Encounters -- Asian Networks and the British Isles
Subjects
- East India Company -- History.
- Imperialism -- History -- 19th century.
- Missionaries -- Asia -- History.
- Merchants -- Asia -- History.
- Great Britain -- Relations -- China.
- China -- Relations -- Great Britain.
- Great Britain -- Relations -- Southeast Asia.
- Southeast Asia -- Relations -- Great Britain.
- Great Britain -- Relations -- India.
- India -- Relations -- Great Britain.