China and the Victorian Imagination :
Forman, Ross G.,
China and the Victorian Imagination : Empires Entwined / China & the Victorian Imagination Ross G. Forman. - 1 online resource (318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; 85 . - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; 85. .
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What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal empire. To British eyes, China promised unlimited economic possibilities, but also posed an ominous threat to global hegemony. Surveying anglophone literary production about China across high and low cultures, as well as across time, space and genres, this book demonstrates how important location was to the production, circulation and reception of received ideas about China and the Chinese. In this account, treaty ports matter more than opium. Ross Forman challenges our preconceptions about British imperialism, reconceptualizes anglophone literary production in the global and local contexts, and excavates the little-known Victorian history so germane to contemporary debates about China's 'rise'.
9781139003803 (ebook)
PR129.C6 / F67 2013
820.9/3251
China and the Victorian Imagination : Empires Entwined / China & the Victorian Imagination Ross G. Forman. - 1 online resource (318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; 85 . - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; 85. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal empire. To British eyes, China promised unlimited economic possibilities, but also posed an ominous threat to global hegemony. Surveying anglophone literary production about China across high and low cultures, as well as across time, space and genres, this book demonstrates how important location was to the production, circulation and reception of received ideas about China and the Chinese. In this account, treaty ports matter more than opium. Ross Forman challenges our preconceptions about British imperialism, reconceptualizes anglophone literary production in the global and local contexts, and excavates the little-known Victorian history so germane to contemporary debates about China's 'rise'.
9781139003803 (ebook)
PR129.C6 / F67 2013
820.9/3251