British naturalist in Qing China: science, empire, and cultural encounter.

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Octavo, dustwrapper, 238 pp. (ISBN: 0674011430) (EAN: 9780674011434)

"Fa-ti Fan's study of the encounter between the British culture of the naturalist and the Chinese culture of the Qing is both a delight and a relevation. The topic has scarcely been addressed by historians of science, and this work fills important gaps in our knowledge of British scientific practice in a noncolonial context and of Chinese reactions to Western science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."