Format:
1 online resource (251 pages)
ISBN:
9780804775878
Content:
This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Garden -- Sir William Chambers and the Dissertation on Oriental Gardening -- The Macartney Mission of 1793 and the Qing Imperial Gardens -- Robert Fortune as Horticultural Spy in Racial Disguise -- 2. Plate -- Romantic Satires on Blue and White China -- The Willow Pattern and George Meredith's The Egoist -- Whistler and Rossetti as Collectors of Blue and White Porcelain -- 3. Display Case and Den -- Exhibiting China in Victorian London -- Display Cases and Opium Dens in The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- Edwin Drood's Inheritors -- 4. Photograph -- Felice Beato and the Second Opium War -- Through China with John Thomson's Camera -- "A Truthful Impression of the Country": Isabella Bird -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804759458
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804759458
Language:
English
