TY - BOOK AU - Forman, Ross G AU - Forman, Ross G TI - China and the Victorian imagination : : empires entwined T2 - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 85 SN - 9781316600993 U1 - 820.932 FOR PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - : Cambridge University Press KW - English Literature KW - Old English literatures KW - English & Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures KW - Great Britain -- Civilization -- Chinese influences KW - China -- In literature KW - Civilization -- Chinese influences KW - Great Britain N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -