Tribute and Trade

William Christie is director of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University.Angela Dunstan is a lecturer in Victorian literature at Queen Mary University of London. Q.S. Tong is a professor of English at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou.

• Introduction by William Christie1. 'That full complement of riches': China and the problems of political economy in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations by Robert Markley2. Cultural cross-dressing in the House of Pankeequa by William Christie3. The Lady Hughes affair, extraterritoriality, and the limits of liberalism by Q. S. Tong4. Once upon a time in 1784: American mercantile biographies and the romance of free trade imperialism by Kendall A. Johnson5. 'What stories I shall have to tell!': mediating China in the writings of Charles Lamb and Thomas Manning by James Watt6. Global contracts of Canton in the Qing Dynasty: a discussion of export painting by Yinghe Jiang7. 'A desperate traffic': John Francis Davis, China, the opium trade and the first opium war by Peter Kitson8. Walter Scott's writing, collecting and reading China by Kang-yen Chiu9. 'Sheer memory': the Victorian idea of Confucian education by Dongqing Wang10. The life and death of Augustus Raymond Margary by Elizabeth Hope Chang11. Linguistic nationalism and its discontents: Chinese latinisation and its practice of equality by Lorraine WongAbout the contributorsIndex