Download or read book Wei Yüan and China’s Rediscovery of the Maritime World written by Jane Kate Leonard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revises earlier views of statecraft reformer Wei Yuan and of Chinese foreign relations during the nineteenth century. Approaching the history of nineteenth-century China from the perspective of Southeast Asian history, the author demonstrates the interaction, from Ch'in times onwards, between China and the Southern ocean or Nan-yang.