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Representing China to the British public in the age of free trade, c. 1833--1844.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Representing China to the British public in the age of free trade, c. 1833--1844./
Author:	Tsao, Ting Man.
Description:	192 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-05, Section: A, page: 1857.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-05A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9974902
ISBN:	0599804149

Representing China to the British public in the age of free trade, c. 1833--1844.
Tsao, Ting Man.

Representing China to the British public in the age of free trade, c. 1833--1844. - 192 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-05, Section: A, page: 1857.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2000.

This dissertation studies anew nineteenth-century British imperialism in China by focusing on, for the first time, British representations of China and the Chinese that widely circulated along the "Eastern" trade routes during the Opium War period from 1833 to 1844. I examine such popular representations as integral parts of Britain's changing imperial policy in "Eastern Asia." In my study, I analyze how various publications about China gave form to the British empire's constantly evolving trade practices, missionary activities, national and parliamentary concerns, diplomatic crises, colonial policies, and military actions in this formative period of "free trade" with the "celestial empire." As such, the plethora of printed matters about Chinese affairs were not simply transparent records of "facts" for historical reconstruction or "reactions" of the British public to the government's China policy as historians have traditionally assumed. Rather, they were statements of the nation's imperial projects that could, through their specific styles, appeal to an empire-wide public and muster their support, both economic and political. Additionally, they are statements of imperialism that last and still influence both our present efforts in critiquing Orientalism and our historiography of the Opium War and the "opening" of China.

ISBN: 0599804149Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Representing China to the British public in the age of free trade, c. 1833--1844.
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