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British Naturalists in Qing China /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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