Asian empire and British knowledge: 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 understandingas 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. INDICE: Introduction - The Origin of Language - A Diplomatic Expedition - South and Southeast Asian Encounters - Asian Networks and the British Isles - Epilogue

• ISBN: 978-0-230-20046-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 16/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés