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Beskrivning
Tribute and Trade: China and Global Modernity explores encounters between China and the West during this period and beyond, into the early 20th century, through examples drawn from art, literature, science, politics, music, cooking, clothing and more.
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.
Innehållsförteckning
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
