British Naturalists in Qing China / / Fa-ti FAN.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western scientific interest in China focused primarily on natural history. Prominent scholars in Europe as well as Westerners in China, including missionaries, merchants, consular officers, and visiting plant hunters, eagerly investigated the flora and fau...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I The Port
- 1 Natural History in a Chinese Entrepôt
- 2 Art, Commerce, and Natural History
- II THE LAND
- 3 Science and Informal Empire
- 4 Sinology and Natural History
- 5 Travel and Fieldwork in the Interior
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Selected Biographical Notes
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index