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

273 Pages·2009·1.178 MB·English
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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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