Matthew W. Mosca is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington (USA). His teaching and research interests center on Chinese and Inner Asian history, specifically the history of the Qing empire (1644-1912), its foreign relations and place in global history, and the intellectual history of Qing-era geography and historiography.
This article first appeared in Comparativ Vol. 30 No. 3/4.
China (en), Colonialism (en), East Asia (en), Empire (en), History (en), Imperialism (en), Qing Empire (en)
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