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Asian empire and British knowledge [electronic resource] : China and the networks of British imperial expansion /

by Hillemann, Ulrike; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series: Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009Description: x, 262 p.ISBN: .Subject(s): East India Company -- History | Imperialism -- History -- 19th century | Missionaries -- Asia -- History | Merchants -- Asia -- History | Great Britain -- Relations -- China | China -- Relations -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Relations -- Southeast Asia | Southeast Asia -- Relations -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Relations -- India | India -- Relations -- Great Britain | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-253) and index.

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.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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