01818nam a22003137a 4500 51439 51439 20190911112838.0 190708b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781316600993 :Atlantic Publishers & Distributors :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi :1097873 :02/07/19 820.932 FOR Forman, Ross G China and the Victorian imagination : empires entwined / Ross G Forman New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. x, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm 1835 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 85. 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. English Literature Old English literatures English & Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures Great Britain -- Civilization -- Chinese influences. China -- In literature. Civilization -- Chinese influences. Great Britain. Great Britain -- Civilization -- Chinese influences. Forman, Ross G BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2019-07-08 Atlantic Publishers & Distributors 1835.00 0 820.932 FOR 26452 2019-07-08 00:00:00 2019-07-08 BOOK