Kitson / Markley Writing China

Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78204-816-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 69, 203 Seiten

Reihe: Essays and Studies

New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kitson, Peter J.

Markley, Robert

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chang, Elizabeth Hope

Jenkins, Eugenia Zuroski

Min, Eun Kyung

Lu, Mingjun

Kitson, Peter J.

Tong, Q S

Markley, Robert

Longxi, Zhang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Writing China - Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley
Urbanization, Generic Forms, and Early Modernity: A Correlative Comparison of Wu Cheng'en and Spenser's Rural-Pastoral Poems - Mingjun Lu
Master Zhuang's Wife: Translating the Ephesian Matron in Thomas Percy's The Matrons [1762] - Eun Kyung Min
The Dark Gift: Opium, John Francis Davis, Thomas De Quincey and the Amherst Embassy to China of 1816 - Peter J. Kitson
The Amherst Embassy in the Shadow of Tambora: Climate and Culture, 1816 - Robert Markley
Tea and the Limits of Orientalism in De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins
Binding and Unbinding Chinese Feet in the Mid-Century Victorian Press - Elizabeth Hope Chang
Elective Affinities? Two Moments of Encounter with Oscar Wilde's Writings - Zhang Longxi
'Lost Horizon': Orientalism and the Question of Tibet - Q S Tong