ISBN:
9781421402161
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (283 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Performing China : Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660-1760
DDC:
303.48242051
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Part of a new wave of cross-disciplinary scholarship, where Chinese studies meets the British eighteenth century, this novel work will appeal to scholars in a number of fields, including performance studies, East Asian studies, British literature, cultural history, gender studies, and postcolonial studies.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction China as Exemplar: Eastern Spectacle and Western Discourses of Virtue -- 1 Heroic Effeminacy and the Conquest of China -- 2 Sincerity and Authenticity: George Psalmanazar's Experiments in Conversion -- 3 Transmigration, Fabulous Pedagogy, and the Morals of the Orient -- 4 Luxury, Moral Sentiment, and The Orphan of China -- Epilogue Orientalism, Globalization, and the New Business of Spectacle -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction China as Exemplar: Eastern Spectacle and Western Discourses of Virtue""; ""1 Heroic Effeminacy and the Conquest of China""; ""2 Sincerity and Authenticity: George Psalmanazar�s Experiments in Conversion""; ""3 Transmigration, Fabulous Pedagogy, and the Morals of the Orient""; ""4 Luxury, Moral Sentiment, and The Orphan of China""; ""Epilogue Orientalism, Globalization, and the New Business of Spectacle""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""
Description / Table of Contents:
""M""""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Note:
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