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Performing China Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660-1760 / Chi-ming Yang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Chi-ming.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature--18th century.
- European literature.
- China--Civilization--History.
- China.
- China--Foreign public opinion, British--History--18th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0441-9
- OCLC:
- 794700386
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