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Race, law, and "the Chinese puzzle" in imperial Britain. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

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Veer, Peter van der. Imperial encounters: Religion and modernity in India and Britain. Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2001.

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Imperial encounters: Religion and modernity in India and Britain. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2001.

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Sutton, Alex. The political economy of imperial relations: Britain, the sterling area, and Malaya, 1945-1960. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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The imperial security state: British colonial knowledge and empire-building in Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Museums and the First World War: A social history. London: Leicester University Press, 1994.

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New Delhi: The last imperial city. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Ogden, C. K. The meaning of meaning: A study of the influence of language upon thought and of the science of symbolism. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

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A, Richards I., ed. The meaning of meaning: A study of of the influence of language upon thought and the science of symbolism. London: Ark Paperbacks, 1985.

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1893-1979, Richards I. A., ed. The meaning of meaning: A study of the influence of language upon thought and of the science of symbolism. London: Routledge, 2001.

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Empires of the mind: I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2004.

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Ngoei, Wen-Qing. Arc of Containment. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501716409.001.0001.

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This book recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from the Pacific War through the end of U.S. intervention in Vietnam. It argues that anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with pre-existing local antipathy toward China and the Chinese diaspora to usher the region from European-dominated colonialism into U.S. hegemony. Between the late 1940s and 1960s, Britain and its indigenous collaborators in Malaya and Singapore overcame the mostly Chinese communist parties of both countries by crafting a pro-West nationalism that was anticommunist by virtue of its anti-Chinese bent. London’s neocolonial schemes in Malaya and Singapore prolonged its influence in the region. But as British power waned, Malaya and Singapore’s anticommunist leaders cast their lot with the United States, mirroring developments in the Philippines, Thailand and, in the late 1960s, Indonesia. In effect, these five anticommunist states established, with U.S. support, a geostrategic arc of containment that encircled China and its regional allies. Southeast Asia’s imperial transition from colonial order to U.S. empire, through the tumult of decolonization and the Cold War, was more characteristic of the region’s history after 1945 than Indochina’s embrace of communism.

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Traces of Grand Peace: Classics and State Activism in Imperial China. Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.

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Collectors, Collections and Museums: The Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain, 1560-1960. Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2007.

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Cheung, Siu Keung. Gender and Community under British Colonialism: Emotion, Struggle and Politics in a Chinese Village. Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.

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Gender and Community Under British Colonialism: Emotion, Struggle and Politics in a Chinese Village (East Asia). Routledge, 2006.

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Koeneke, Rodney. Empires of the Mind: I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979. Stanford University Press, 2003.

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Todd, David. A Velvet Empire. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691171838.001.0001.

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After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. This book is a global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France's power from the Middle East to Latin America and ushered in the modern age of globalization. The book shows how French elites pursued a cunning strategy of imperial expansion in which conspicuous commodities, such as champagne and silk textiles, together with loans to client states, contributed to a global campaign of seduction. French imperialism was no less brutal than that of the British. But while Britain widened its imperial reach through settler colonialism and the acquisition of far-flung territories, France built a “velvet” empire backed by frequent military interventions and a broadening extraterritorial jurisdiction. The book demonstrates how France drew vast benefits from these asymmetric, imperial-like relations until a succession of setbacks around the world brought about their unravelling in the 1870s. It sheds light on France's neglected contribution to the conservative reinvention of modernity and offers a new interpretation of the resurgence of French colonialism on a global scale after 1880. It also highlights the crucial role of collaboration among European empires during this period and cooperation with indigenous elites in facilitating imperial expansion and the globalization of capitalism.

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Dale, Melissa S. Inside the World of the Eunuch. Hong Kong University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888455751.001.0001.

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This book tells the story of how Chinese palace eunuchs, a complicated and much-maligned group of people, struggled to insert a degree of agency into their lives. During the Qing dynasty, the imperial court was determined to limit the influence of eunuchs by imposing a management style based upon strict rules, corporal punishment, and collective responsibility. Emasculation and employment placed eunuchs at the center of the empire, yet also subjected them to servile status and marginalization by society. Seeking more control over their lives, eunuchs repeatedly tested the boundaries of subservience to the emperor and the imperial court. This portrait of eunuch society reveals that Qing eunuchs operated within two parallel realms, one revolving around the emperor and the court by day and another among the eunuchs themselves by night where they recreated the social bonds (through drinking, gambling, and opium smoking) denied them by their palace service. Emasculation did not produce the ideal servants; rather, eunuchs proved to be a constant source of anxiety and labor challenges for the Qing imperial court. The history of Qing palace eunuchs is defined by a tension between the role eunuchs were meant to play and the life they intended to live.

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Murray, Chris. China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767015.001.0001.

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Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and travel narratives, ancient Greece and Rome lent interpretative paradigms and narrative shape to Britain’s information on the Middle Kingdom. While memoirists of the diplomatic missions in 1793 and 1816 used classical ideas to introduce Chinese concepts, Roman history held ominous precedents for Sino–British relations according to Edward Gibbon and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. John Keats illuminated how peculiar such contemporary processes of Orientalist knowledge-formation were. In Britain, popular opinion on Chinese culture wavered during the nineteenth century, as Charles Lamb and Joanna Baillie demonstrated in ekphrastic responses to chinoiserie. A former reverence for China yielded gradually to hostility, and the classical inheritance informed a national identity-crisis over whether Britain’s treatment of China was civilized or barbaric. Amidst this uncertainty, the melancholy conclusion to Virgil’s Aeneid became the master-text for the controversy over British conduct at the Summer Palace in 1860. Yet if Rome was to be the model for the British Empire, Tennyson, Sara Coleridge, and Thomas de Quincey found closer analogues for the Opium Wars in Greek tragedy and Homeric epic. Meanwhile, Sinology advanced considerably during the Victorian age, with translations of Laozi and Zhuangzi placed in dialogue with the classical tradition. Classics changed too, with not only canonical figures invoked in discussions of China, but current interests such as Philostratus and Porphyry. Britain broadened its horizons by interrogating the cultural past anew as it turned to Asia: Anglophone readers were cosmopolitans in time as well as space, aggregating knowledge of Periclean Athens, imperial Rome, and many other polities in their encounters with Qing Dynasty China.

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