What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal e...
What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal empire. To British eyes, China promised unlimited economic possibilities, but also posed an ominous threat to global hegemony. Surveying anglophone literary production about China across high and low cultures, as well as across time, space and genres, this book demonstrates how important location was to the production, circulation and reception of received ideas about China and the Chinese. In this account, treaty ports matter more than opium. Ross G. Forman challenges our preconceptions about British imperialism, reconceptualizes anglophone literary production in the global and local contexts, and excavates the little-known Victorian history so germane to contemporary debates about China's 'rise'.
作者简介
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Ross Forman is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.
目录
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Introduction: topsy-turvy Britain and China
1. The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports
2. Projecting from Possession Point: James Dalziel's chronicles of Hong Kong
3. Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900
4. Britain 'knit and nationalised': Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898–1914
5. Staging the celestial
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Introduction: topsy-turvy Britain and China
1. The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports
2. Projecting from Possession Point: James Dalziel's chronicles of Hong Kong
3. Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900
4. Britain 'knit and nationalised': Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898–1914
5. Staging the celestial
6. A cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London
Conclusion: no rest for the West
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Forman‘s analysis on Isabella Bird is interesting. I like the chapter on the photographic representation of Qing China as well. Truly a great essay collection！
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6 有用 Nausicaa 2019-04-13 00:04:33
关于黄祸论的两章（义和团小说和亚洲入侵小说）写得较好。义和团的暴民形象的两个原型：一是英国的工人阶级，二是印度和非洲的反殖民运动（indian mutiny and boer wars). 亚洲入侵者的双重特性，欧洲对Asian mimicry的焦虑。另外，本书聚焦小说和戏剧，没有讨论维多利亚中国书写的大头：传教士写作。
0 有用 Asita 2014-09-13 11:09:04
最后一章有惊喜--BBC的夏洛克~
0 有用 圆熊 2020-04-16 19:27:42
Forman‘s analysis on Isabella Bird is interesting. I like the chapter on the photographic representation of Qing China as well. Truly a great essay collection！