Performing China : virtue, commerce, and orientalism in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760 /
Yang, Chi-ming.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
European literature