Performing China
Subtitle: virtue, commerce, and orientalism in eighteenth-century England
By: Chi-ming Yang
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781421402161
Subjects: British Foreign public opinion; History; Civilization; European literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: spectacle and the example of China; title: Heroic effeminacy and the conquest of China; title: Sincerity and authenticity : George Psalmanazar's experiments in conversion; title: Transmigration, fabulous pedagogy, and the morals of the orient; title: Luxury, moral sentiment, and the orphan of China; title: Epilogue: global orientalism and the business of spectacle.