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Performing China : virtue, commerce, and orientalism in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760
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Performing China : virtue, commerce, and orientalism in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760 / Chi-ming Yang.
ISBN
9781421402161 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1421402165 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
ix, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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