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Author Chang, Elizabeth Hope.

Title Britain's Chinese eye : literature, empire, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain / Elizabeth Hope Chang.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-227) and index.
Contents Garden -- Plate -- Display case and den -- Photograph.
Summary 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.
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Subject Great Britain -- Civilization -- Chinese influences.
Great Britain.
Civilization.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Aesthetics, British -- 19th century.
Aesthetics, British.
China -- In literature.
China.
China -- In art.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Art.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Chang, Elizabeth Hope. Britain's Chinese eye. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804759458 (DLC) 2009034668 (OCoLC)434438589
ISBN 9780804775878 (electronic book)
0804775877 (electronic book)
0804759456 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804759458 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804759458 (cloth ; alkaline paper)