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Writing China : essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations /
On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to attend an immediate audience with the Jiaqing Emperor at the Summer Palace of Yuanming Yuan. Fatigued and separated from his ambassadorial and credenti...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
D.S. Brewer,
2016.
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| Series: | Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) ;
v. 69. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; Writing China / Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley
- Urbanization, generic forms, and early modernity: a correlative comparison of Wu Cheng'en and Spenser's rural-pastoral poems / Mingjun Lu
- Master Zhuang's wife: translating the Ephseian matron in Thomas Percy's The Matrons (1762) / Eun Kyung Min
- The Dark Gift: opium, John Francis Davis, Thomas De Quincey, and the Amherst embassy to China of 1816 / Peter J. Kitson
- The Amherst embassy in the shadow of Tambora: climate and culture, 1816 / Robert Markley
- Tea and the limits of Orientalism in de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater / Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins
- Binding and unbinding Chinese feet in the mid-century Victorian press / Elizabeth Chang
- Elective affinities? Two moments of encounter with Oscar Wilde's Writings / Zhang Longxi
- 'Lost Horizon': Orientalism and the question of Tibet / Q.S. Tong.