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An American pioneer of Chinese Studies in cross-cultural perspective: Benjamin Bowen Carter as an agent of global knowledge By Yeung Man Shun. xv, 447 pp. Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2021.

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An American pioneer of Chinese Studies in cross-cultural perspective: Benjamin Bowen Carter as an agent of global knowledge By Yeung Man Shun. xv, 447 pp. Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2021.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2022

Edward Weech
Edward Weech*
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Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society Email: [email protected]
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 2023 , pp. 545 - 548
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1 For Manning's career, see Weech, Edward, Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning (Manchester University Press, 2022)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Yeung's reference to George Washington's early vision for American relations with foreign nations—while ‘extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible’ (p. 342)—serves as an interesting counterpart to the governing principles of Qing foreign policy.