Writing China
Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
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Published on 21. July 2016
203 pages
978-1-78204-816-9 (ISBN)
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New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.
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Peter J. Kitson | Robert Markley
Writing China
Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
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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 Ephesian 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 Hope 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
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 Ephesian 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 Hope 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
