Beschreibung:
Peter J. Kitson, Robert Markley
New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.
Introduction: Writing China - Peter J. Kitson and Robert MarkleyUrbanization, Generic Forms, and Early Modernity: A Correlative Comparison of Wu Cheng'en and Spenser's Rural-Pastoral Poems - Mingjun LuMaster Zhuang's Wife: Translating the Ephesian Matron in Thomas Percy's The Matrons [1762] - Eun Kyung MinThe Dark Gift: Opium, John Francis Davis, Thomas De Quincey and the Amherst Embassy to China of 1816 - Peter J. KitsonThe Amherst Embassy in the Shadow of Tambora: Climate and Culture, 1816 - Robert MarkleyTea and the Limits of Orientalism in De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Eugenia Zuroski JenkinsBinding and Unbinding Chinese Feet in the Mid-Century Victorian Press - Elizabeth Hope ChangElective Affinities? Two Moments of Encounter with Oscar Wilde's Writings - Zhang Longxi'Lost Horizon': Orientalism and the Question of Tibet - Q S Tong