Screen LibraryPerforming China : virtue, commerce, and orientalism in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760 /
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| Published: |
Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore : |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-260) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781421402161 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 1421402165 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | DS754 |
| CLC: | I500.6 |
| Call Number: | I500.6/Y222 |
| 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. |