Asian Empire and British Knowledge

China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion

• Author(s): U. Hillemann,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 262
• ISBN_10: 0230246753
  ISBN_13: 9780230246751
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Asia / General , History / Europe / Great Britain / General , Political Science / History & Theory , History / Historiography , History / Modern / General , History / Asia / China , History / General ,

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.