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Representations of China in British children's fiction, 1851-1911 / Shih-Wen Chen, the Australian National University.
Van Pelt Library PR830.C513 C48 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chen, Shih-Wen.
- Series:
- Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
- Children's stories, English.
- Chinese in literature.
- China--In literature.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2013]
- Contents:
- A kaleidoscope of knowledge: children, knowledge, and China in Victorian Britain
- Exploring the celestial kingdom: William Dalton and Anne Bowman's vision of China
- From comic trickster to brilliant detective: E.H. Burrage's "immortal" Ching-Ching
- Heroes and hostile hordes: representing the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)
- China against the Allies: interpreting the Boxer Uprising (1899-1901)
- Conclusion: Quilts and kaleidoscopes: visions of China in the literary imagination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409447351
- 1409447359
- OCLC:
- 818465693
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