China and the Victorian imagination : empires entwined / Ross G Forman
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TextPublisher number: :Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 85Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: x, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781316600993
- 820.932 FOR
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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.
This book presents China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, explaining how ideas about China and the Chinese were received throughout the British empire.
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