A Mid-nineteenth-century Discovery of the Non-Chinese World
- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Modern Asian Studies
- Vol. 6 (2) , 205-224
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00015365
Abstract
Four years after the publication of Wei Yuan's Hai-kuo t'u-chih, Hsu Chi-yü (1795–1873), while governor of Fukien, composed the preface to his ten-chüan history-geography of the non-Chinese world. A product of the immediate post-Opium War period, Hsu's Ying-huan chih-lueh (A short account of the maritime circuit, 1848) is another example of Chinese intellectual response to Western intrusion and the challenges of a new era. Indeed, while Hsu and Wei agreed on the fundamental necessity to learn more about the outside world in order to protect China, the tone of their books, the Ying-huan chih-lueh and the Hai-kuo t'u-chih, differed to such an extent that the former came to represent the views of Chinese ‘moderates’, while the latter did likewise for the ‘conservatives’.Keywords
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