Mediating Empire

An English Family in China, 1817-1927

Andrew Hillier

9781912961023

240 pages

Amsterdam University Press

Hardback $121.00

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Overview

As part of the growing scholarship on family and empire, this study examines Britain’s presence in China through the lens of one family, arguing that, as the physical embodiment of the imperial project, it provided a social and cultural mechanism for mediating Britain’s imperial power, authority and presence, and forging connections and networks throughout the expanding British world. Drawing on public and private papers, it breaks significant new ground in its development of those themes.