Asian empire and British knowledge
Subtitle: China and the networks of British imperial expansion
By: Ulrike Hillemann
Series: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780230200463
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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.