Title Asian empire and British knowledge : China and the networks of British imperial expansion / Ulrike Hillemann

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. Contents Introduction -- 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-253) and index Notes Print version record Subject East India Company -- History SUBJECT East India Company fast East India Company London gnd Subject Imperialism -- History -- 19th century Missionaries -- Asia -- History Merchants -- Asia -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization. Imperialism Merchants Missionaries International relations Chinabild SUBJECT 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 Subject Asia China Great Britain India Southeast Asia Großbritannien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230246751 0230246753 128267241X 9781282672413

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