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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 284
Pages: 284
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-01 - Publisher: JHU Press
China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a model of economic and political strength, viewed by many as the greatest empire in the world. While the
Language: en
Pages: 297
Pages: 297
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
'A Taste for China' offers an account of how literature of the long eighteenth century generated a model of English selfhood dependent on figures of China. It s
Language: en
Pages: 366
Pages: 366
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-20 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the British visua
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-21 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
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