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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962078803321
• Autore: Hillemann Ulrike <1977->
• 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.