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
ISBN-13: 9780230200463
Subjects: East India Company -- History; Imperialism -- History -- 19th century; Missionaries -- Asia -- History; Merchants -- Asia -- History; Great Britain -- Relations -- China; China -- Relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Relations -- Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia -- Relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Relations -- India; India -- Relations -- Great Britain
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 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.