From frontier policy to foreign policy
Subtitle: the question of India and the transformation of geopolitics in Qing China
By: Matthew W. Mosca
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780804782241
Subjects: Geopolitics; History; Foreign relations; Geography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-387) and index.
Table of contents: title: A wealth of Indias : India in Qing geographic practice, 1644-1755; title: The conquest of Xinjiang and the emergence of "Hindustan," 1756-1790; title: Mapping India : geographic agnosticism in a cartographic context; title: Discovering the "Pileng" : British India seen from Tibet, 1789-1800; title: British India and Qing strategic thought in the early nineteenth century; title: The discovery of British India on the Chinese coast, 1800-1837; title: The Opium War and the British Empire; title: Emergence of a foreign policy : Wei Yuan and the reinterpretation of India in Qing strategic thought.