Asian Empire and British Knowledge

Asian Empire and British Knowledge PDF Author: U. Hillemann
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230246753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Book 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.