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Title Tribute and trade : China and global modernity, 1784-1935 / edited by William Christie, Angela Dunstan and Q. S. Tong.

Publication Info. Sydney, Australia : Sydney University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 315 pages).
text file EPUB 1.2MB
Series China and the West in the modern world
China and the West in the modern world.
Contents Introduction: China and the West in the Long Eighteenth Century / William Christie -- 'That full complement of riches': China and the Problems of Political Economy in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations / Robert Markley -- Cultural Cross-Dressing in the House of Pankeequa / William Christie -- Lady Hughes Affair, Extraterritoriality, and the Limits of Liberalism / Q. S. Tong -- Once Upon a Time in 1784: American Mercantile Biographies and the Romance of Free Trade Imperialism / Kendall A. Johnson -- 'What stories I shall have to tell!': Mediating China in the Writings of Charles Lamb and Thomas Manning / James Watt -- Global Contacts of Canton in the Qing Dynasty: A Discussion of Export Painting / Yinghe Jiang -- 'A desperate traffic': John Francis Davis, China, the Opium Trade and First Opium War / Peter Kitson -- Walter Scott's Writing, Collecting and Reading China / Kang-yen Chiu -- 'Sheer Memory': The Victorian Idea of Confucian Education / Dongqing Wang -- Life and Death and Life of Augustus Raymond Margary / Elizabeth Hope Chang -- Linguistic Nationalism and Its Discontents: Chinese Latinisation and Its Practice of Equality / Lorraine Wong.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries Online access with authorization. AU-CaNED
Summary P>Tribute and Trade: China and GlobalModernity explores encounters between China and the West during thisperiod and beyond, into the early 20th century, through examples drawn fromart, literature, science, politics, music, cooking, clothing and more.
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Subject China -- Foreign relations -- Western countries.
China.
International relations.
Western countries.
Western countries -- Foreign relations -- China.
China -- Foreign economic relations -- 18th century.
International economic relations.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject China -- Foreign economic relations -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject China -- Foreign economic relations -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
1700-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Christie, William, 1952- editor, contributor.
Dunstan, Angela, editor.
Tong, Q. S., editor, contributor.
Added Title China and global modernity, 1784-1935
Other Form: Print version: 1743326009 9781743326008 (OCoLC)1149732988
ISBN 9781743327050 (electronic book : pdf)
1743327056 (electronic book : pdf)
9781743325995 (electronic book : epub)
1743325991 (electronic book : epub)
9781743326916 (electronic book : mobi)
1743326912 (electronic book : mobi)
1743326009
9781743326008
2147483647 EPUB