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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 May 2013
      16 August 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139178853
      9781108045919
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139178853
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 434 Pages
      • Subjects:
      East Asian History, Area Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    First published in 1847, this is an important description of what were then little-known parts of China by the botanist Robert Fortune (1812–80). Son of a hedger, Fortune rose to be one of the most famous gardeners, botanists and plant hunters of his day, making several visits to China to bring out commercially important plants, especially tea for introduction to British India, and ornamental plants (many now bearing the name fortunei) which were enthusiastically taken up by Victorian gardeners. His three years in China took him to areas newly open to Europeans after Chinese defeat in the First Opium War (1839–42). His sometimes trenchant criticisms of the Chinese - like his contemporaries, he was fully persuaded of the superiority of the West - are balanced by his knowledgeable comments on local flora and plant cultivation, and the book remains an insightful early description of inland regions of China.

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