Performing China [electronic resource] : virtue, commerce, and orientalism in eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760 / Chi-ming Yang.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (ix, 270 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781421404417
- 1421404419
- 303.48/24205109033 22
- DS754.25 .Y364 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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