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Modern Asian Studies /ASS Additional services for Modern Asian Studies: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here A Mid­nineteenth­century Discovery of the Non­ Chinese World Fred W. Drake Modern Asian Studies / Volume 6 / Issue 02 / March 1972, pp 205 ­ 224 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749 Published online: 28 November 2008 Link to this article: /abstract_S0026749 How to cite this article: Fred W. Drake (1972). A Mid­nineteenth­century Discovery of the Non­Chinese  World. Modern Asian Studies, 6, pp 205­224 doi:10.1017/S0026749 Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from /ASS, IP address: 31 on 25 Dec 2012 Modem Asian Studies, 6, 2 (1972), pp . 205-224. Printed in Great Britain. A Mid-nineteenth-century Discovery of the Non-Chinese World FRED W. DRAKE University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts FOU R years after the publication of Wei Yuans Hai-kuo fu-chih, Hsu I I Chi-yii $:i$i# ( 795~ 873), while governor of Fukien, composed the preface to his ten-chiian history-geography of the non-Chinese world . A product of the immediate post-Opium War period, Hsus Ting-huan chih-lueh ffiM (A short account of the maritime circuit, 1848) is another example of Chinese intellectual response to Western intrusion and the challenges of a new era.i Indeed, while Hsu and Weijagreed on the fundamental necessity to learn more about the outside world in order to protect China, the tone of their books, the Ting-huan chih-lueh and the Hai-kuo tu-chih, differed to such an extent that the former came to represent the views of Chinese mode