Britain's Chinese eye literature, empire, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain - Chang, Elizabeth Hope (Stanford University Press, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts