British Naturalists in Qing China
Subtitle: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: February 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780674011434
Subjects: Biology, Life Sciences; History of specific subjects; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; Europe - Great Britain - General; Research; History: World; Science/Mathematics; China; Asia - China; General; History / China; British; History; Natural history; Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
Description: "Fan reconstructs and explains the aims, methods, and achievements of naturalists' research in a China coming to grips with Western powers. He investigates how natural history, horticulture, Chinese export art, folk knowledge, and Sinology converged in the scientific representation of the natural history of China. Scientific practice and knowledge took shape, as he shows, in the cultural "borderlands," during a critical period in Sino-Western relations."--Jacket.