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UNINA9910787618803321 |
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Kitson Peter J. |
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Forging romantic China : Sino-British cultural exchange, 1760-1840 / / Peter J. Kitson [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-50306-X |
1-139-89377-7 |
1-107-50142-3 |
1-107-50678-6 |
1-107-51443-6 |
1-107-49750-7 |
1-107-51720-6 |
1-107-50411-2 |
1-107-05380-3 |
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1 online resource (vii, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; ; 105 |
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English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Romanticism - Great Britain |
China In literature |
China Civilization |
Great Britain Civilization Chinese influences |
Great Britain Civilization 18th century |
Great Britain Civilization 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China -- 2. 'A wonderful stateliness': William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal School of Sinology -- 3. 'They thought that Jesus and Confucius were alike': Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China -- 4. 'Fruits of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign grafts': the Canton School of Romantic Sinology: Staunton and Davis -- |
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5. Establishing the 'Great Divide': scientific exchange and the Macartney Embassy -- 6. 'You will be taking a trip into China, I suppose': kowtows, tea cups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China -- 7. Chinese gardens, Confucius, and the prelude -- 8. 'Not a bit like the Chinese figures that adorn our chimney-pieces': orphans and travellers: China on stage. |
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The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women during the Romantic period. The new perceptions of China that it gave rise to were mediated via a dynamic print culture to a diverse range of poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists and reviewers, including Jane Austen, Thomas Percy, William Jones, S. T. Coleridge, George Colman, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others, informing new British understandings and imaginings of China on the eve of the Opium War of 1839-42. Kitson aims to restore China to its true global presence in our understandings of the culture and literature of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
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UNINA9910821698803321 |
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Pike Dag |
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Storms and wild water / / Dag Pike |
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London, England : , : Adlard Coles Nautical, , 2009 |
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1-283-19424-4 |
9786613194244 |
1-4081-1230-2 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Cover; Contents; 1 The Eye of the Storm; 2 Forecasting Storms; 3 Ships in Storms; 4 Small Craft in Storms; 5 World Weather and Storm Creation; 6 Tropical Revolving Storms; 7 Extreme Waves; 8 Perfect Storms; 9 When the Storms Meet the Land; 10 The Wild Southern Ocean; 11 Atlantic Ocean Storms; 12 Indian Ocean Monsoons; 13 Pacific Ocean Cyclones; 14 Regional and Local Winds; 15 Wild Water and Whirlpools; 16 Tsunamis; 17 The Future; Index |
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Dag Pike draws on his experience as merchant navy captain, fast boat navigator and boat safety tester for RNLI lifeboats to focus on a wide range of disasters at sea. He compiles a wide range of accounts of yachts, motorboats and commercial vessels running into difficulty as a result of poor navigation, fog, miscalculation, human error, weather conditions etc and analyses in a readable and entertaining fashion what caused the disaster, what went wrong, how it was dealt with and the lessons learned from it. Examples range from the Fastnet disaster, powerboat races, boats run down in the Channel |
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