The contributors to this volume criticize and move beyond the limiting conventional assumption that European Imperialism was met with cultural ignorance and conservative Sino-centrism by China in the late 19th and early 20th century. Based on well-researched case studies, the articles closely examine the historical processes involved in the exchange and transmission of ideas, knowledge and technologies between China and Europe. By drawing on new archival materials and theoretical frameworks, these studies shed fresh light ...
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The contributors to this volume criticize and move beyond the limiting conventional assumption that European Imperialism was met with cultural ignorance and conservative Sino-centrism by China in the late 19th and early 20th century. Based on well-researched case studies, the articles closely examine the historical processes involved in the exchange and transmission of ideas, knowledge and technologies between China and Europe. By drawing on new archival materials and theoretical frameworks, these studies shed fresh light on how Western knowledge about China was produced through often contentious negotiations and power struggles and how such knowledge was then deployed to reconstruct a new treaty-based international order between China and the West after 1842. The articles also deal with the less well-known processes of knowledge acquisition and technological utilization in the opposite direction: the transmission of Western technology, science, and expertise for the purpose of strengt
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