Performing China: Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660–1760
- ISBN-10
- 1421404419
- ISBN-13
- 9781421404417
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-11-01
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Chi-ming Yang
Description
Part of a new wave of cross-disciplinary scholarship, where Chinese studies meets the British eighteenth century, this novel work will appeal to scholars in a number of fields, including performance studies, East Asian studies, British literature, cultural history, gender studies, and postcolonial studies.
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