MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101107045614
ISBN-139781107045613
eBay Product ID (ePID)166448096
Product Key Features
Number of Pages326 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameForging Romantic China : Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760-1840
Publication Year2013
SubjectCommunication Studies, Drama, International Relations / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Asia / China, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
AuthorPeter J. Kitson
SeriesCambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight22 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2013-023417
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 105
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal303.4824105109033
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 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.
SynopsisFocusing on the literary and historical relations between Britain and China during the Romantic period and based on extensive archival investigations, this book shows how British knowledge was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women., 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 missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women during the Romantic period. The new perceptions of China that it gave rise to were mediated via a dynamic print culture to a diverse range of poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists and reviewers, including Jane Austen, Thomas Percy, William Jones, S. T. Coleridge, George Colman, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others, informing new British understandings and imaginings of China on the eve of the Opium War of 1839-42. Kitson aims to restore China to its true global presence in our understandings of the culture and literature of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
LC Classification NumberPR447 .K55 2013
