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Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	British naturalists in China, 1760--1910./
Author:	Fan, Fa-ti.
Description:	346 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-01, Section: A, page: 3320.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-01A.
Subject:	Science history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9937270
ISBN:	9780599505469

British naturalists in China, 1760--1910.
Fan, Fa-ti.

British naturalists in China, 1760--1910. - 346 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-01, Section: A, page: 3320.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1999.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation examines the research of British naturalists in China in relation to the history of natural history, of scientific imperialism, and of Sino-Western relations by tracing the scientific activities from a long historical perspective and in a broad cultural context. The dissertation attempts to explain how British naturalists in China and their Chinese "associates" explored, studied, and represented China's natural world within the social and cultural context of late Qing China. At one level, it seeks to reconstruct and describe the purpose, process, results, and institutional base of the naturalists' research in a China that was beginning to come to grips with Western powers. I examine the boundary drawing and power negotiations among different groups involved in the activities. At another level the dissertation tries to trace and tease out the strands of knowledge traditions that converged in the scientific representations of the natural history of China. It unfolds the interplay between the discourse of natural history and that of practical knowledge (e.g. horticulture), Chinese export art, Chinese folk knowledge, and sinology. My ultimate goal is to explain the formation of scientific practice and knowledge in cultural borderlands during a critical period of Sino-Western relations.

ISBN: 9780599505469Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144850
Science history.

British naturalists in China, 1760--1910.
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