Britain's Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Elizabeth Chang

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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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804759456

ISBN13:9780804759458

Release Date:April 2010

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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