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Forging romantic China : Sino-British cultural exchange, 1760-1840 /
"The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionarie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
105. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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: Staunton and Davis
- 5. Establishing the 'Great Divide': scientific exchange and the Macartney Embassy
- 6. 'You will be taking a trip into China, I suppose': kowtows, tea cups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China
- 7. Chinese gardens, Confucius, and the prelude
- 8. 'Not a bit like the Chinese figures that adorn our chimney-pieces': orphans and travellers: China on stage
- Bibliography.