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The term "British Barbarians" (英夷) reflects the 19th-century Chinese worldview, categorized by the "Tributary System" where non-Chinese groups were often labeled as "barbarians." Wei Yuan uses this term to describe the British as they expanded their colonial footprint into Singapore.