Writing China : Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations.: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Kitson, Peter J; Markley, Robert
• Contents: Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Writing China -- Urbanization, Generic Forms, and Early Modernity: A Correlative Comparison of Wu Cheng'en and Spenser's Rural-Pastoral Poems -- Master Zhuang's Wife: Translating the Ephesian Matron in Thomas Percy's The Matrons (1762) -- The Dark Gift: Opium, John Francis Davis, Thomas De Quincey, and the Amherst Embassy to China of 1816 -- The Amherst Embassy in the Shadow of Tambora: Climate and Culture, 1816 -- Tea and the Limits of Orientalism in De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater -- Binding and Unbinding Chinese Feet in the Mid-Century Victorian Press -- Elective Affinities? Two Moments of Encounter with Oscar Wilde's Writings -- 'Lost Horizon': Orientalism and the Question of Tibet -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Melton : Boydell & Brewer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (205 pages)
• Subjects: 820.93209033999995; Travel; China -- Description and travel; China; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782048169; 1782048162
• Related ISBNs: 9781843844457
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