Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Writing China
- Urbanization, Generic Forms, and Early Modernity: A Correlative Comparison of Wu Cheng’en and Spenser’s Rural-Pastoral Poems
- Master Zhuang’s Wife: Translating the Ephesian Matron in Thomas Percy’s The Matrons (1762)
- The Dark Gift: Opium, John Francis Davis, Thomas De Quincey, and the Amherst Embassy to China of 1816
- The Amherst Embassy in the Shadow of Tambora: Climate and Culture, 1816
- Tea and the Limits of Orientalism in De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- Binding and Unbinding Chinese Feet in the Mid-Century Victorian Press
- Elective Affinities? Two Moments of Encounter with Oscar Wilde’s Writings
- ‘Lost Horizon’: Orientalism and the Question of Tibet
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 June 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Writing China
- Urbanization, Generic Forms, and Early Modernity: A Correlative Comparison of Wu Cheng’en and Spenser’s Rural-Pastoral Poems
- Master Zhuang’s Wife: Translating the Ephesian Matron in Thomas Percy’s The Matrons (1762)
- The Dark Gift: Opium, John Francis Davis, Thomas De Quincey, and the Amherst Embassy to China of 1816
- The Amherst Embassy in the Shadow of Tambora: Climate and Culture, 1816
- Tea and the Limits of Orientalism in De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- Binding and Unbinding Chinese Feet in the Mid-Century Victorian Press
- Elective Affinities? Two Moments of Encounter with Oscar Wilde’s Writings
- ‘Lost Horizon’: Orientalism and the Question of Tibet
- Index
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- Writing ChinaEssays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations, pp. viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016