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Forging Romantic China : Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760-1840.
The first major study to focus on British and Chinese cultural relations in the Romantic period.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Forging Romantic China; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; China and orientalism; Sinicizing Romantic-period writing; Romantic Sinology; China and global Romanticism; Chapter 1 Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China; The eighteenth-century sinology: Matteo Ricci, Confucius, and the Jesuit synthesis; Early beginnings: Thomas Percy's Pleasing History; Percy on the Chinese language; Chapter 2 "A wonderful stateliness": William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal School of Sinology; Joshua Marshman's Serampore School of Sinology.
- Marshman's Protestant ConfucianismChapter 3 "They thought that Jesus and Confucius were alike": Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China; Canton, tea, opium, commerce, and war; Morrison, Milne, and the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca; Morrison encounters Confucius; Chapter 4 "Fruits of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign grafts": the Canton School of Romantic Sinology
- Staunton and Davis; Chinese Law: the East India Company sinology of George Thomas Staunton; John Francis Davis's Canton sinology.
- Sorrows and shadows: Davis, Chinese literature, and Romantic poeticsDavis's fortunate union; Davis's the chinese (1836): opium, tea, and war; Chapter 5 Establishing the "Great Divide": scientific exchange, trade, and the Macartney embassy; China, science, and modernity; Banks, global botany, tea, and the Macartney embassy; Science and modernity: Britons bearing gifts; Chapter 6 "You will be taking a trip into China, I suppose": kowtows, teacups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China; Chinese kowtows; Robert southey's Chinese failures; Southey, Baillie, and porcelain.
- Charles Lamb's Chinese evasionsThomas Manning's Chinese absences; Leigh Hunt's Chinese libels; Chapter 7 Chinese Gardens, Confucius, and The Prelude; William Chambers, George III, and the Romantic Chinese garden; The Wordsworths' Chinese money; Confucius, Barrow, and Wordsworthian theories of education; Wordsworth's Chinese re-orientalizations: Book Eight of the prelude; Macartney's Chinese picturesque; Chapter 8 "Not a bit like the Chinese figures that adorn our chimney-pieces": orphans and travellers
- China on the stage; Adapting the zhao shi guer.
- Garrick, Murphy, and the orphan of china (1756)Pantomime and the new Romantic chinoiserie; "A modern model of his country's porcelain, useful as well as ornamental": Andrew Cherry's The Travellers; or, Music's Fascinat; Contemporary Qing China and Romantic drama; Notes; Introduction; 1 Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China; 2 "A wonderful stateliness": William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal School of Sinology; 3 "They thought that Jesus and Confucius were alike": Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China.
- 4 "Fruits of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign grafts": the Canton School of Romantic Sinology
- Staunto.