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Asian Empire and British Knowledge : China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion / by U. Hillemann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillemann, Ulrike, 1977-
- Series:
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 2635-1641
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asia--History.
- Asia.
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- World politics.
- Historiography.
- History--Methodology.
- History.
- History, Modern.
- China--History.
- China.
- Asian History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Political History.
- Historiography and Method.
- Modern History.
- History of China.
- Local Subjects:
- Asian History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Political History.
- Historiography and Method.
- Modern History.
- History of China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2009.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612672415
- 9781282672413
- 128267241X
- 9780230246751
- 0230246753
- OCLC:
- 650307444
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