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- catalog abstract ""Fan reconstructs and explains the aims, methods, and achievements of naturalists' research in a China coming to grips with Western powers. He investigates how natural history, horticulture, Chinese export art, folk knowledge, and Sinology converged in the scientific representation of the natural history of China. Scientific practice and knowledge took shape, as he shows, in the cultural "borderlands," during a critical period in Sino-Western relations."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12945642.
- catalog coverage "China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Fan reconstructs and explains the aims, methods, and achievements of naturalists' research in a China coming to grips with Western powers. He investigates how natural history, horticulture, Chinese export art, folk knowledge, and Sinology converged in the scientific representation of the natural history of China. Scientific practice and knowledge took shape, as he shows, in the cultural "borderlands," during a critical period in Sino-Western relations."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "I. The Port -- 1. Natural History in a Chinese Entrepot -- 2. Art, Commerce, and Natural History -- II. The Land -- 3. Science and Informal Empire -- 4. Sinology and Natural History -- 5. Travel and Fieldwork in the Interior.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-230) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 238 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0674011430".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog spatial "China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.".
- catalog spatial "China".
- catalog spatial "China.".
- catalog subject "508/.07/2051 21".
- catalog subject "British China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.".
- catalog subject "Natural history China History.".
- catalog subject "Natural history Research China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.".
- catalog subject "QH51 .F36 2004".
- catalog subject "Research China.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. The Port -- 1. Natural History in a Chinese Entrepot -- 2. Art, Commerce, and Natural History -- II. The Land -- 3. Science and Informal Empire -- 4. Sinology and Natural History -- 5. Travel and Fieldwork in the Interior.".
- catalog title "British naturalists in Qing China : science, empire, and cultural encounter / Fa-ti Fan.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".