A Study of George Bogle’s Transcript on Tibet in the Logic of Colonial Trade

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10.2991/assehr.k.211025.038How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Colonial trade, George Bogle, Transcript on Tibet

Abstract

The transcript left by George Bogle, an employee of the British East India Company, on his mission to Tibet is adopted as research text in the paper to explore Britain’s preoccupation with China during the period of colonial expansion. In spite of the ban on maritime trade and the foreign policy of isolationism from the outside world launched by the Ming and Qing governments and the Qing government respectively, Britain still attempted to open a direct trade route with mainland China via Tibet. A review of previous documents reveals a detailed record of British commercial trade with Tibet, and the desires and prejudices of George Bogle, who wrote in the logic of colonial trade. This can highly boost the study on Sino-British relations in the eighteenth century.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaomei Han
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/26
TI  - A Study of George Bogle’s Transcript on Tibet in the Logic of Colonial Trade
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 233
EP  - 239
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211025.038
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211025.038
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