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Asian Empire and British Knowledge : China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion /

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 me...

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Main Author: Hillemann, Ulrike (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subjects:
History.
Asian History.
Historiography and Method.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of China.
Modern History.
Political History.
Historiography.
History, Modern.
World politics.
Asia > History.
China > History.
Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 262 pages)
ISBN:9780230246751
DOI:10.1057/9780230246751