Performing China : virtue, commerce, and orientalism in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760 /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yang, Chi-ming
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
1700-1799
European literature > 18th century.
Littérature européenne > 18e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Civilization.
European literature.
Public opinion, British.
China > Civilization > History.
China > Foreign public opinion, British > History > 18th century.
Chine > Civilisation > Histoire.
China.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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