Chinese (over)civilisation and Britain, c. 1850-90s

Authors

Stephanie Villalta Puig, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Vocational Training CouncilFollow

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