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Asian empire and British knowledge, China and the networks of British imperial expansion, Ulrike Hillemann

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Asian empire and British knowledge

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Ulrike Hillemann

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

China and the networks of British imperial expansion

"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

Introduction -- The decline of mythical China -- At the China coast -- South and southeast Asian encounters -- Asian networks and the British Isles introduction