Asian Empire and British Knowledge E-Book

U. Hillemann

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2009

Beschreibung

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.