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Abstract Like a classical civilisation – southern, hieroglyphic, once risen, now fallen – China in the 1860s was, for British imperial ideology, a stagnation of Confucian ethics, despotic governments, and anti-modernist tides: an (over)civilisation, a cautionary tale for Britain yet an extension to its informal empire. Stephanie Villalta Puig is a graduate of The Australian National University, where she has also lectured. For her doctoral studies, she received an Australian Bicentennial Scholarship from the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies in King's College London. Dr Villalta Puig researches British Imperial History and, in particular, the British medical construction of the Chinese. She also has research interests in Cultural History and, more broadly, World History. She was last a research fellow with the Department of History at The University of Hull, and now teaches at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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