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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962078803321

Autore

Hillemann Ulrike <1977->

Titolo

Asian Empire and British Knowledge : China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion / / by U. Hillemann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

9786612672415

9781282672413

128267241X

9780230246751

0230246753

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1641

Disciplina

303.48/24105109034

Soggetti

Asia - History

Great Britain - History

World politics

Historiography

History - Methodology

History, Modern

China - History

Asian History

History of Britain and Ireland

Political History

Historiography and Method

Modern History

History of China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.