Asian Empire and British Knowledge : China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion, PDF eBook

Asian Empire and British Knowledge : China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion PDF

Part of the Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies series

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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.

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