The Vision of China in the English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Title | The Vision of China in the English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Hsia |
Publisher | Chinese University Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9789622016088 |
The Vision of China is the first book on China as it came to be reflected in English literature. As such, it also offers the first comprehensive study of the image of China in Western literature. Featuring essays by prominent Chinese scholars such as Qian Zongshu, Fan Cunzhong, and Chen Shouyi, it complements such works as Pierre Martino's L'Orient dans la litterature francaise au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siecle (1906), Ursula Aurich's China im Spiegel der deutschen Literature des 18. Jahrhunderts (1935), and E. Horst Tscharner's China in der deutschen Dichtung bis zur Klassik (1939).Together with William W. Appleton's A Cycle of Cathay: The Chinese Vogue in England during the 17th and 18th Centuries (1951) and Raymond Dawson's The Chinese Chameleon: An Analysis of European Conceptions of Chinese Civilization (1967), the book studies the last phase of the Chinese mode in England. Some of the articles collected here actually inspired Appleton's study, at least in part.As a contemporary volume on the construct of China, The Vision of China can readily be considered the companion study to Edward Said's envisioned Orient in Orientalism (1979), to Tzvetan Todorov's Africa in Nous et les autres: la reflection francaise sur la diversite humaine (1989), and Gauri Viswanathan's Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (1989).
The Vision of China in the English Literature ... of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
Title | The Vision of China in the English Literature ... of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Hsia |
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Release | 1997 |
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China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690–1770
Title | China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690–1770 PDF eBook |
Author | Eun Kyung Min |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2018-04-19 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1108421938 |
Argues that eighteenth-century literature defined itself as 'English' and 'modern' by engaging with debates about Chinese history and culture.
Pagodas in Play
Title | Pagodas in Play PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Ward |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0838756964 |
Pagodas in Play analyzes the treatment of China in the imaginative and spectacular world of eighteenth-century Italian opera. It shows how Italians used perceptions of Chinese culture to address local and transnational developments, particularly Enlightenment and secular reform initiatives. Its focus on the texts and performance practices of opera, an entertainment form accessible to a wide public, reveals cultural operations and identities harder to detect in non-fictional reformist writings, the texts traditionally privileged to explain Italian mediations of Enlightenment ideas. In its close reading of nine libretti of the most salient Settecento operas treating China (opere serie and opere buffe by authors including Metastasio, Zeno, Goldoni and Lorenzi), Pagodas in Play differentiates Italian iterations of Chinese culture from French and English counterparts. It further challenges certain tenets of orientalism, showing how it operates when nationalist and/or colonialist projects are absent, and how orientalist practices in eighteenth-century Italy exhibit early on the complexity some scholars locate only in the twentieth century. Adrienne Ward teaches Italian literature and culture at the University of Virginia.
Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty
Title | Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty PDF eBook |
Author | John Minford |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 1252 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780231096775 |
Contains English translations of Chinese writings drawn from throughout a period of four hundred years, including poems, drama, fiction, songs, biographies, and early works of philosophy and history; arranged chronologically and by genre, with introductory quotes and comments.
The Invention of China in Early Modern England
Title | The Invention of China in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan E. Lux |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2021-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030840328 |
The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals used the utopian ideal of China to license all kinds of progressive innovation before chronicling how England’s growing commerce in southeast Asia radically changed China’s representation in the English discourse community. For the new community of English merchants proposing to trade in Chinese goods, China became the seminal example in the growing discourse community of English Orientalism. It was an absolute or arbitrary authoritarian state, associated with crooked business dealings, and cloaked in a rhetoric of secrecy and exclusion—a dangerous exception to the traditions, values, and identities of the emergent English speaking states. Finally, the book points out some of the ways that contemporary English language sources continue to represent this early modern English thought tradition, labelling the complexities of modern China with analytical vocabulary perhaps better suited to the pressing political anxieties of the seventeenth century.
Creating the Opium War
Title | Creating the Opium War PDF eBook |
Author | Hao Gao |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2019-12-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 152613344X |
Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War – a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next century. It makes the first attempt to bring together the political history of Sino-western relations and the cultural studies of British representations of China, as a new way of explaining the origins of the conflict. The book focuses on a crucial period (1792–1840), which scholars such as Kitson and Markley have recently compared in importance to that of American and French Revolutions. By examining a wealth of primary materials, some in more detail than ever before, this study reveals how the idea of war against China was created out of changing British perceptions of the country.