British naturalists in Qing China : science, empire, and cultural encounter /

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Annotation 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 fl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fan, Fa-ti, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Temas:
1644-1912
Natural history > Research > China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
British > China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Research.
Natural History > history
Research
Recherche.
research (function)
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
British.
Natural history > Research.
Qing Dynasty (China)
China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
China
Chine > Histoire > 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing)
China.
History.
Acceso en línea: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

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