Performing China : virtue, commerce, and orientalism in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760 / Chi-ming Yang

Bib ID:
5742110
Format:
Book
Author:
Yang, Chi-ming
Description:
  • Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2011
  • ix, 270 p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
  • 9781421402161
  • 1421402165
Full 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:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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