Forging Romantic China
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Forging Romantic China

Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760ā€“1840

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Forging Romantic China

Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760ā€“1840

About this book

The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women during the Romantic period. The new perceptions of China that it gave rise to were mediated via a dynamic print culture to a diverse range of poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists and reviewers, including Jane Austen, Thomas Percy, William Jones, S. T. Coleridge, George Colman, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others, informing new British understandings and imaginings of China on the eve of the Opium War of 1839ā€“42. Kitson aims to restore China to its true global presence in our understandings of the culture and literature of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Forging Romantic China
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China
  11. Chapter 2 ā€œA wonderful statelinessā€: William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal School of Sinology
  12. Chapter 3 ā€œThey thought that Jesus and Confucius were alikeā€: Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China
  13. Chapter 4 ā€œFruits of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign graftsā€: the Canton School of Romantic Sinology ā€“ Staunton and Davis
  14. Chapter 5 Establishing the ā€œGreat Divideā€: scientific exchange, trade, and the Macartney embassy
  15. Chapter 6 ā€œYou will be taking a trip into China, I supposeā€: kowtows, teacups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China
  16. Chapter 7 Chinese Gardens, Confucius, and The Prelude
  17. Chapter 8 ā€œNot a bit like the Chinese figures that adorn our chimney-piecesā€: orphans and travellers ā€“ China on the stage
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Primary sources
  21. Secondary sources
  22. Index
  23. Series