Writing China: essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations
On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to attend an immediate audience with the Jiaqing Emperor at the Summer Palace of Yuanming Yuan. Fatigued and separated from his ambassadorial and credenti...
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Zusammenfassung: | On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to attend an immediate audience with the Jiaqing Emperor at the Summer Palace of Yuanming Yuan. Fatigued and separated from his ambassadorial and credentials, Amherst resisted, and left the palace in anger. The emperor, believing he had been insulted, dismissed the embassy without granting it an imperial audience and rejected its "tribute" of gifts. This diplomatic incident caused considerable disquiet at the time. Some 200 years later, it is timely in 2016 to consider once again the complex and vexed historical and cultural relations between two of the nineteenth-century world's largest empires. The interdisciplinary essays in this volumeengage with the most recent work on British cultural representations of, and exchanges with, Qing China, extending our existing but still provisional understandings of this area of study in new and exciting directions. They cover such subjects as female foot binding; English and Chinese pastoral poetry; translations; representations of the trade in tea and opium; Tibet; and the political, culturaland environmental contexts of the Amherst embassy itself. Featuring British and Chinese writers such as Edmund Spenser, Wu Cheng'en, Thomas De Quincey, Oscar Wilde, James Hilton, and Zhuanzi, these essays take forward the compelling and highly relevant subject for today of Britain and China's relationship. Contributors: Elizabeth Chang, Peter J. Kitson, Eugenia Zurowski Jenkins, ZhangLongxi, Mingjun Lu, Robert Markley, Eun Kyung Min, Q.S. Tong |
Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021) Introduction; Writing China / Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley -- Urbanization, generic forms, and early modernity: a correlative comparison of Wu Cheng'en and Spenser's rural-pastoral poems / Mingjun Lu -- Master Zhuang's wife: translating the Ephseian matron in Thomas Percy's The Matrons (1762) / Eun Kyung Min -- The Dark Gift: opium, John Francis Davis, Thomas De Quincey, and the Amherst embassy to China of 1816 / Peter J. Kitson -- The Amherst embassy in the shadow of Tambora: climate and culture, 1816 / Robert Markley -- Tea and the limits of Orientalism in de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater / Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins -- Binding and unbinding Chinese feet in the mid-century Victorian press / Elizabeth Chang -- Elective affinities? Two moments of encounter with Oscar Wilde's Writings / Zhang Longxi -- 'Lost Horizon': Orientalism and the question of Tibet / Q.S. Tong |
Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 193 Seiten) |
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spelling | Writing China essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations edited by Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley for the English Association Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY D.S. Brewer 2016 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 193 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) 69 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021) Introduction; Writing China / Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley -- Urbanization, generic forms, and early modernity: a correlative comparison of Wu Cheng'en and Spenser's rural-pastoral poems / Mingjun Lu -- Master Zhuang's wife: translating the Ephseian matron in Thomas Percy's The Matrons (1762) / Eun Kyung Min -- The Dark Gift: opium, John Francis Davis, Thomas De Quincey, and the Amherst embassy to China of 1816 / Peter J. Kitson -- The Amherst embassy in the shadow of Tambora: climate and culture, 1816 / Robert Markley -- Tea and the limits of Orientalism in de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater / Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins -- Binding and unbinding Chinese feet in the mid-century Victorian press / Elizabeth Chang -- Elective affinities? Two moments of encounter with Oscar Wilde's Writings / Zhang Longxi -- 'Lost Horizon': Orientalism and the question of Tibet / Q.S. Tong On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to attend an immediate audience with the Jiaqing Emperor at the Summer Palace of Yuanming Yuan. Fatigued and separated from his ambassadorial and credentials, Amherst resisted, and left the palace in anger. The emperor, believing he had been insulted, dismissed the embassy without granting it an imperial audience and rejected its "tribute" of gifts. This diplomatic incident caused considerable disquiet at the time. Some 200 years later, it is timely in 2016 to consider once again the complex and vexed historical and cultural relations between two of the nineteenth-century world's largest empires. The interdisciplinary essays in this volumeengage with the most recent work on British cultural representations of, and exchanges with, Qing China, extending our existing but still provisional understandings of this area of study in new and exciting directions. They cover such subjects as female foot binding; English and Chinese pastoral poetry; translations; representations of the trade in tea and opium; Tibet; and the political, culturaland environmental contexts of the Amherst embassy itself. Featuring British and Chinese writers such as Edmund Spenser, Wu Cheng'en, Thomas De Quincey, Oscar Wilde, James Hilton, and Zhuanzi, these essays take forward the compelling and highly relevant subject for today of Britain and China's relationship. Contributors: Elizabeth Chang, Peter J. Kitson, Eugenia Zurowski Jenkins, ZhangLongxi, Mingjun Lu, Robert Markley, Eun Kyung Min, Q.S. Tong Geschichte 1816 gnd rswk-swf Travelers' writings, British / 19th century / History and criticism Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf Literaturbeziehungen (DE-588)4035965-7 gnd rswk-swf Chinabild (DE-588)4122097-3 gnd rswk-swf China / Description and travel Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 gnd rswk-swf China (DE-588)4009937-4 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4143413-4 Aufsatzsammlung gnd-content Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Chinabild (DE-588)4122097-3 s Geschichte 1816 z DE-604 Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 g China (DE-588)4009937-4 g Literaturbeziehungen (DE-588)4035965-7 s Kitson, Peter J. 1958- (DE-588)137008724 edt Markley, Robert 1952- (DE-588)131553283 edt Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 978-1-84384-445-7 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782048169 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
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title | Writing China essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations |
title_auth | Writing China essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations |
title_exact_search | Writing China essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations |
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title_full | Writing China essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations edited by Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley for the English Association |
title_fullStr | Writing China essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations edited by Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley for the English Association |
title_full_unstemmed | Writing China essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations edited by Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley for the English Association |
title_short | Writing China |
title_sort | writing china essays on the amherst embassy 1816 and sino british cultural relations |
title_sub | essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations |
topic | Travelers' writings, British / 19th century / History and criticism Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Literaturbeziehungen (DE-588)4035965-7 gnd Chinabild (DE-588)4122097-3 gnd |
topic_facet | Travelers' writings, British / 19th century / History and criticism Englisch Literatur Literaturbeziehungen Chinabild China / Description and travel Großbritannien China Aufsatzsammlung |
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