Название: Asian Empire and British Knowledge. China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion
Автор: Ulrike Hillemann
Издательство: Palgrave
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 274
Размер: 15.3 Мб
Язык: английский
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.