Asian Empire and British Knowledge

Asian Empire and British Knowledge
Author: U. Hillemann
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2009-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230246753

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.