{"product_id":"performing-china-9781421402161","title":"Performing China","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: China as Exemplar: Eastern Spectacle and Western Discourses of Virtue\u003cbr\u003e1. Heroic Effeminacy and the Conquest of China\u003cbr\u003e2. Sincerity and Authenticity: George Psalmanazar's Experiments in Conversion\u003cbr\u003e3. Transmigration, Fabulous Pedagogy, and the Morals of the Orient\u003cbr\u003e4. Luxury, Moral Sentiment, and The Orphan of China\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Orientalism, Globalization, and the New Business of Spectacle\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529522684247,"sku":"9781421402161","price":56.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421402161.jpg?v=1731875945","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/performing-china-9781421402161","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}