Performing China virtue, commerce, and orientalism in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760 /
"China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a model of economic and political strength, viewed by many as the greatest empire in the world. While the importance of China to eighteenth-century English consumer culture is well documented, less so is its influence on English values. Thr...
| Основен автор: | Yang, Chi-ming. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011.
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Print version::
Performing China : Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660-1760. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: spectacle and the example of China
- Heroic effeminacy and the conquest of China
- Sincerity and authenticity : George Psalmanazar's experiments in conversion
- Transmigration, fabulous pedagogy, and the morals of the orient
- Luxury, moral sentiment, and the orphan of China
- Epilogue: global orientalism and the business of spectacle.