Performing China : virtue, commerce, and oriental in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760
Title:
Performing China : virtue, commerce, and oriental in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760
Author:
Yang, Jiming.
ISBN:
9781421402161
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Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
ix, 270 p. ; : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
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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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
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