ISBN:
9781421404417
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1421404419
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 270 p. :)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Yang, Chi-Ming Performing China : Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660-1760
DDC:
303.4824205109033
Keywords:
European literature 18th century
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European literature 18th century
;
European literature 18th century
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European literature
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Public opinion, British
;
Civilization
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
History
;
China Civilization
;
History
;
China Foreign public opinion, British
;
History
;
18th century
;
China Civilization
;
History
;
China Foreign public opinion, British 18th century
;
History
;
China Foreign public opinion, British 18th century
;
History
;
China Civilization
;
History
;
China
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: spectacle and the example of ChinaHeroic 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.
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Made available online by Project Muse
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