Writing China - Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations

New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.

List of contents

Introduction: Writing China - Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley
Urbanization, Generic Forms, and Early Modernity: A Correlative Comparison of Wu Cheng'en and Spenser's Rural-Pastoral Poems - Mingjun Lu
Master Zhuang's Wife: Translating the Ephesian Matron in Thomas Percy's The Matrons [1762] - Eun Kyung Min
The Dark Gift: Opium, John Francis Davis, Thomas De Quincey and the Amherst Embassy to China of 1816 - Peter J. Kitson
The Amherst Embassy in the Shadow of Tambora: Climate and Culture, 1816 - Robert Markley
Tea and the Limits of Orientalism in De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins
Binding and Unbinding Chinese Feet in the Mid-Century Victorian Press - Elizabeth Hope Chang
Elective Affinities? Two Moments of Encounter with Oscar Wilde's Writings - Zhang Longxi
'Lost Horizon': Orientalism and the Question of Tibet - Q S Tong

About the author

Peter J. Kitson, Robert Markley

Product details

• Authors: Peter J. Kitson
• Assisted by: Peter J Kitson (Editor), Peter J. Kitson (Editor), Robert Markley (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2016
• EAN: 9781843844457
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-445-7
• No. of pages: 203
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Essays and Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Geschichte, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General