Titlebook: Asian Empire and British Knowledge; China and the Networ Ulrike Hillemann Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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Introduction, China was considered an obstacle to the development of Britain and was also viewed as inhibiting the progress of its own inhabitants, degenerating under a corrupt and arbitrary government. From being regarded as the domain of an ideal monarch and the origin of high quality products, it was now seen

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The Decline of Mythical China,orted silk and Marco Polo brought rumours about Cathay’s fabulous riches back to medieval Europe. However, a new way of thinking about China began with the Jesuit mission to China in the middle of the 16th century.. The Portuguese, and later the French and German Jesuit monks followed the Portuguese

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At the China Coast,was growing, although never to large numbers. During the embassies and in Canton, the British had to take into account the reaction of the Chinese to the image of Britain and China formed by the British. This was a stark contrast to the philosophers, merchants or appreciators of Chinoiserie in Brita

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South and Southeast Asian Encounters,Empire under Qianlong had expanded to include the large western area, the Xinjiang province, into its territory. Qianlong had also tried, albeit not very successfully, to ensure Chinese military supremacy over Burma and Vietnam in the 1760s and 1780s. In the 1790s, he managed to tighten his grip on

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Asian Networks and the British Isles,ution to the production of knowledge on Asia in the metropolis. He became a founding member of the zoological society and one of the presidents of the language institution which George Staunton and Robert Morrison set up for the study of Chinese and other Asian languages.. In July 1826, Raffles died