Territorializing the Chinese Nation-State - Cartography, Geopolitics, and Huang Maocai's Mission to India (1878–1880)

This book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Huang Maocai. A trained Chinese cartographer in the service of the imperial Qing state, he was officially deputed to ascertain the Tibet-India land route and the geo-political status of British India in the 19th century.