British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter by Fa-ti Fan
British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter

Fa-ti Fan

British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter

Fa-ti Fan

268 pages first pub 2004 (view editions)

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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 ...

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