Asian empire and British knowledge : China and the networks of British imperial expansion / / Ulrike Hillemann.

"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 criti...

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Superior document:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Physical Description:x, 262 p.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-253) and index. 
505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: Introdcution * The decline of Mythical China * At the China Coast * South and Southeast Asian Encounters * Asian Networks and the British Isles Introdcution * The decline of Mythical China * At the China Coast * South and Southeast Asian Encounters * Asian Networks and the British Isles. 
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