China Charts the World: Hsu Chi-yü and His Geography of 1848Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- A Scholar-Official from Shansi -- The “Intractable Barbarians” -- In Touch with a New World -- A Victim of Conservatism -- The Ying-Huan Chih-Lueh -- Governor Hsu's Image of the World -- Danger in China's Maritime Sphere -- Threatened on the Inner Asian Frontier -- The “Barbarian” Base in Europe -- Despair in Africa, Hope in America -- Return to China's Heartland -- Conclusion -- Works Cited in the Ying-Huan Chih-Lueh: Titles, Authors, and Location in the 1848 Edition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs. |
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... geography not only belied the myth of China's supremacy in the world , they also introduced ideas that ultimately helped to undermine the Confucian order . Though the early efforts of Lin Tse - hsu and later of his friend , Wei Yuan ...
... geography not only belied the myth of China's supremacy in the world , they also introduced ideas that ultimately helped to undermine the Confucian order . Though the early efforts of Lin Tse - hsu and later of his friend , Wei Yuan ...
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... geography and a view of a pluralistic world of competing states- a situation on a global scale not unlike the Warring States period ( 403-221 B.C. ) of ancient China . Hsu acknowledged that the most successful states in this world ...
... geography and a view of a pluralistic world of competing states- a situation on a global scale not unlike the Warring States period ( 403-221 B.C. ) of ancient China . Hsu acknowledged that the most successful states in this world ...
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... geography of marvels suc- cumbed to a geography of facts . And just as in the West the increase of geographical knowledge had planted seeds for a renaissance , for a larger intellectual vision , so too Hsu's work brought new concepts to ...
... geography of marvels suc- cumbed to a geography of facts . And just as in the West the increase of geographical knowledge had planted seeds for a renaissance , for a larger intellectual vision , so too Hsu's work brought new concepts to ...
Contents
A SCHOLAROFFICIAL FROM SHANSI | 7 |
THE INTRACTABLE BARBARIANS | 17 |
IN TOUCH WITH A NEW WORLD | 28 |
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