Christie, WilliamChristie, WilliamDunstan, AngelaTong, Q. S.2021-02-01978174335995http://hdl.handle.net/1885/220397This chapter is part of the alternative history of Britain's relations with China, implicitly challenging the conventional narrative of mutual suspicion and subsequent confrontation by examining a selection of 'minor narratives of cross-cultural collaboration' from the eighteenth century to the first Opium War (1839-42).application/pdfen-AU© 2020 Individual Authors. © 2020 Sydney University Press2020.2307/j.ctv12pntkh.62021-08-01