Description
Book SynopsisPart of a new wave of cross-disciplinary scholarship, where Chinese studies meets the British eighteenth century, this novel work will appeal to scholars in a number of fields, including performance studies, East Asian studies, British literature, cultural history, gender studies, and postcolonial studies.
Trade ReviewWell-organized and documented. Book Bargains and Previews Yang has shown a productive conceptual direction for new scholarship on English writers in this period to take. For raising... important and clearly relevant and persistent issues, she deserves a wide readership. -- Robert Batchelor Journal of British Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: China as Exemplar: Eastern Spectacle and Western Discourses of Virtue
1. Heroic Effeminacy and the Conquest of China
2. Sincerity and Authenticity: George Psalmanazar's Experiments in Conversion
3. Transmigration, Fabulous Pedagogy, and the Morals of the Orient
4. Luxury, Moral Sentiment, and The Orphan of China
Epilogue: Orientalism, Globalization, and the New Business of Spectacle
Notes
Bibliography
Index
