Title: Performing China : virtue, commerce, and orientalism in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760 /
Authors: Yang, Chi-ming.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: European literature; European literature History and criticism.; China Foreign public opinion, British History; China Civilization History.; China Civilization.
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.