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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fan, Fa-ti, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
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)
History
Online Access:Texto completo

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