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Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911.

In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chen, Shih-Wen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Taylor and Francis, 2016.
Colección:Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 A Kaleidoscope of Knowledge: Children, Knowledge, and China in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
  • chapter 2 Exploring the Celestial Kingdom: William Dalton and Anne Bowman’s Vision of China
  • chapter 3 From Comic Trickster to Brilliant Detective: E. Harcourt Burrage’s ‘Immortal’ Ching-Ching
  • chapter 4 Heroes and Hostile Hordes: Representing the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)
  • chapter 5 China Against the Allies: Interpreting the Boxer Uprising (1899–1901).