Book contents
- Forging Romantic China
- Series page
- Forging Romantic China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China
- Chapter 2 “A wonderful stateliness”: William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal School of Sinology
- Chapter 3 “They thought that Jesus and Confucius were alike”: Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China
- Chapter 4 “Fruits of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign grafts”: the Canton School of Romantic Sinology – Staunton and Davis
- Chapter 5 Establishing the “Great Divide”: scientific exchange, trade, and the Macartney embassy
- Chapter 6 “You will be taking a trip into China, I suppose”: kowtows, teacups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China
- Chapter 7 Chinese Gardens, Confucius, and The Prelude
- Chapter 8 “Not a bit like the Chinese figures that adorn our chimney-pieces”: orphans and travellers – China on the stage
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - “You will be taking a trip into China, I suppose”: kowtows, teacups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Forging Romantic China
- Series page
- Forging Romantic China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China
- Chapter 2 “A wonderful stateliness”: William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal School of Sinology
- Chapter 3 “They thought that Jesus and Confucius were alike”: Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China
- Chapter 4 “Fruits of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign grafts”: the Canton School of Romantic Sinology – Staunton and Davis
- Chapter 5 Establishing the “Great Divide”: scientific exchange, trade, and the Macartney embassy
- Chapter 6 “You will be taking a trip into China, I suppose”: kowtows, teacups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China
- Chapter 7 Chinese Gardens, Confucius, and The Prelude
- Chapter 8 “Not a bit like the Chinese figures that adorn our chimney-pieces”: orphans and travellers – China on the stage
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Forging Romantic ChinaSino-British Cultural Exchange 1760–1840, pp. 153 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013