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

by James L. Hevia

Book Overview

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"