China and the Victorian imagination : empires entwined / Ross G. Forman.

By: Forman, Ross GMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and CulturePublication details: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013ISBN: 9781107013155Subject(s): English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- Chinese influences | Great Britain -- Civilization -- Chinese influences | China -- In literatureDDC classification: 820.9/3251 Other classification: O-v Q3 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online | Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction: Topsy-turvy Britain and China -- The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports -- Projecting from possession point: James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong Kong -- Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 -- Britain "knit and nationalised": Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914 -- Staging the celestial -- A Cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London -- Conclusion: No rest for the West.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-288) and index.

Introduction: Topsy-turvy Britain and China -- The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports -- Projecting from possession point: James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong Kong -- Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 -- Britain "knit and nationalised": Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914 -- Staging the celestial -- A Cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London -- Conclusion: No rest for the West.

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