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Mediating Empire : An English Family in China, 1817-1927 / Andrew Hillier.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Imperialism in East AsiaPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781912961030
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.82/1051 23
LOC classification:
  • DS731.B75 H55 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Preface -- Acknowledgments / Use of Names -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Hillier Family Tree -- Medhurst Family Tree -- Map of Principal Locations of the Hillier & Medhurst Families, 1817–1927 -- Map of the Chinese Railway network, 1909 -- Introduction: Family, China and the British World -- Part 1: 1817–1860 -- Chapter 1 Preparing for Entry -- Chapter 2 Opening the Treaty Ports -- Chapter 3 Colonising Hong Kong -- Chapter 4 Strong Wives -- Part 2: 1857–1927 -- Chapter 5 Early Influences, Early Careers -- Chapter 6 The New Imperialism -- Chapter 7 Intimate Empire -- Chapter 8 Reform and Revolution, War and Withdrawal -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Time-line -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: As part of the growing scholarship on family and empire, this study examines Britain’s presence in China through the lens of one family, arguing that, as the physical embodiment of the imperial project, it provided a social and cultural mechanism for mediating Britain’s imperial power, authority and presence, and forging connections and networks throughout the expanding British world. Drawing on public and private papers, it breaks significant new ground in its development of those themes.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Preface -- Acknowledgments / Use of Names -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Hillier Family Tree -- Medhurst Family Tree -- Map of Principal Locations of the Hillier & Medhurst Families, 1817–1927 -- Map of the Chinese Railway network, 1909 -- Introduction: Family, China and the British World -- Part 1: 1817–1860 -- Chapter 1 Preparing for Entry -- Chapter 2 Opening the Treaty Ports -- Chapter 3 Colonising Hong Kong -- Chapter 4 Strong Wives -- Part 2: 1857–1927 -- Chapter 5 Early Influences, Early Careers -- Chapter 6 The New Imperialism -- Chapter 7 Intimate Empire -- Chapter 8 Reform and Revolution, War and Withdrawal -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Time-line -- Bibliography -- Index

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As part of the growing scholarship on family and empire, this study examines Britain’s presence in China through the lens of one family, arguing that, as the physical embodiment of the imperial project, it provided a social and cultural mechanism for mediating Britain’s imperial power, authority and presence, and forging connections and networks throughout the expanding British world. Drawing on public and private papers, it breaks significant new ground in its development of those themes.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)