03158nam 2200637 a 450 991082893250332120230725025221.00-8047-7587-710.1515/9780804775878(CKB)2670000000051819(EBL)584768(OCoLC)669512780(SSID)ssj0000413205(PQKBManifestationID)11268608(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413205(PQKBWorkID)10381841(PQKB)11144994(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127865(MiAaPQ)EBC584768(DE-B1597)564363(DE-B1597)9780804775878(Au-PeEL)EBL584768(CaPaEBR)ebr10413416(OCoLC)1178770317(EXLCZ)99267000000005181920090824d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBritain's Chinese eye[electronic resource] literature, empire, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain /Elizabeth Hope ChangStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20101 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-5945-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-227) and index.Garden -- Plate -- Display case and den -- Photograph.This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the British visual imagination. Chang brings together an unusual group of primary sources to investigate how nineteenth-century Britons looked at and represented Chinese people, places, and things, and how, in the process, ethnographic, geographic, and aesthetic representations of China shaped British writers' and artists' vision of their own lives and experiences. For many Britons, China was much more than a geographical location; it was also a way of seeing and being seen that could be either embraced as creative inspiration or rejected as contagious influence. In both cases, the idea of China's visual difference stood in negative contrast to Britain's evolving sense of the visual and literary real. To better grasp what Romantic and Victorian writers, artists, and architects were doing at home, we must also understand the foreign "objects" found in their midst and what they were looking at abroad.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAesthetics, British19th centuryGreat BritainCivilizationChinese influencesGreat BritainCivilization19th centuryChinaIn literatureChinaIn artEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Aesthetics, British303.48/24105109034Chang Elizabeth Hope1606548MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828932503321Britain's Chinese eye3978645UNINA