Asian empire and British knowledge : China and the networks of British imperial expansion / Ulrike Hillemann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillemann, Ulrike, 1977-

Series:

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East India Company.

History.

Merchants.

Missionaries.

Relations.

Great Britain--Relations--China.

Great Britain.

China--Relations--Great Britain.

China.

Great Britain--Relations--Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--Relations--Great Britain.

Southeast Asia.

Great Britain--Relations--India.

India--Relations--Great Britain.

India.

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

Missionaries--Asia--History.

Merchants--Asia--History.

East India Company--History.

Asia.

Physical Description:

x, 262 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introdcution * The decline of Mythical China * At the China Coast * South and Southeast Asian Encounters * Asian Networks and the British Isles Introdcution * The decline of Mythical China * At the China Coast * South and Southeast Asian Encounters * Asian Networks and the British Isles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230200463

023020046X

OCLC:

461895988