Autore	Zheng Da <1953->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (359 p.)
Disciplina	920.0092951073
Soggetto topico	Chinese American authors Chinese American artists Chinese - United States Chinese - England Asian diaspora Chinese in literature Exiles' writings, English - History and criticism Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
ISBN	0-8135-4927-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD. Chiang Yee As I Knew Him -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON ROMANIZATION -- 1. Chinese Childhood -- 2. Revolutionary Era -- 3. Civil Servant -- 4. No Longer in Need of a Bench -- 5. “Another C. Y.” -- 6. “The Thing Has Come at Last” -- 7. “My Own World” -- 8. Oxford Years -- 9. “My English Christmas” -- 10. To America -- 11. Americanized -- 12. “Invisible Pains” -- 13. Home -- 14. Family and Love -- 15. China Revisited -- 16. Homeward Bound -- Notes -- Primary Sources -- Writings by Chiang Yee -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910817013303321

Autore	Forman Ross G.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	820.9/3251
Collana	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Soggetto topico	English literature - 19th century - History and criticism English literature - Chinese influences
ISBN	1-107-27238-6 1-139-89059-X 1-107-27179-7 1-316-60099-8 1-107-27837-6 1-139-00380-1 1-107-27388-9 1-107-27511-3 1-107-27714-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: Topsy-turvy Britain and China -- The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports -- Projecting from possession point: James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong Kong -- Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 -- Britain "knit and nationalised": Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914 -- Staging the celestial -- A Cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London -- Conclusion: No rest for the West.
Altri titoli varianti	China & the Victorian Imagination
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452498503321

Autore	Hsia Adrian
Edizione	[Reprint 2010]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Tübingen, : Niemeyer, 1998
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (152 p.)
Disciplina	809.933251 833.912
Collana	Communicatio
Soggetto topico	European literature - 17th century - History and criticism European literature - 18th century - History and criticism European literature - Chinese influences
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-091489-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Preface -- Theorizing Sinism: An Analysis of Chinesia -- History as Fiction, Fiction as History: The Manchu Conquest of China in Dutch and English Drama of the 17th Century -- The Chinesian Vision: From the Image of China as a Nation of Christian Converts in the German Fiction of the 17th Century to That of an Ideal State Ruled by Confucianized Tartars in the Drama of Voltaire -- The Transformation of Chinesia from Jesuitical Fiction to Jesuit College Drama: A Preliminary Survey -- The Transplanted Chinese Orphan In England, France, Germany, Italy And his Repatriation to Hong Kong -- Sinism Within a Despotic Oriental Utopia: From Montesquieu's l'Esprit des lois to Albrecht von Haller's Political Novel Usong -- Chinesia in Weimar: The Transition From J.G. Herder's Sinophobia to S. von Seckendorff's Sino-Romanticism -- In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Eschatological Sinism of Hegel, Marx, and Weber -- Bibliography
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461953503321

Autore	Basilone Linetto
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford, : Peter Lang, 2022
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (338 pages)
Disciplina	850.9/3251
Collana	Italian Modernities
Soggetto topico	Travelers' writings, Italian - China - History and criticism Italian prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Politics in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Literary criticism
ISBN	1-78997-512-3 1-78997-511-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910776163503321

Autore	Kitson Peter J.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (vii, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	303.48/241051
Collana	Cambridge studies in Romanticism
Soggetto topico	English literature - 18th century - History and criticism English literature - 19th century - History and criticism Romanticism - Great Britain
ISBN	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
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	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 -- 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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463966503321