Title
Chinese (over)civilisation and Britain, c. 1850-90s
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
Like a classical civilisation – southern, hieroglyphic, once risen, now fallen – China in the 1860s was, for British imperial ideology, a stagnation of Confucian ethics, despotic governments, and anti-modernist tides: an (over)civilisation, a cautionary tale for Britain yet an extension to its informal empire.
Source Publication
Departmental Seminar Series of the History Department, 2011 Nov 24, The University of Hong Kong
Recommended Citation
Villalta Puig, S. (2011). Chinese (over)civilisation and Britain, c. 1850-90s. Departmental Seminar Series of the History Department, 2011 Nov 24, The University of Hong Kong. Retrieved from https://repository.vtc.edu.hk/thei-fac-gen-ed-sp/220
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