English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China

by James L. Hevia

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Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great Britain enacted a pedagogical project that was itself a form of colonization, James L. Hevia demonstrates how British actors instructed the Manchu-Chinese...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822331888

ISBN13:9780822331889

Release Date:December 2003

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:387 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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History Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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