Writing China : essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations /

Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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The romance of China : excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776-1876 / by Haddad, John Rogers

Table of Contents: “…Xanadu : an envoy at the throne of a monarch -- Romantic domesticity : a Chinese world invented at home -- Pursuing the China effect : a country described through marketing -- China in miniature : Nathan Dunn's Chinese museum -- A floating ethnology : the strange voyage of the Chinese junk Keying -- God's China : the Middle Kingdom of Samuel Wells Williams -- The cultural fruits of diplomacy : Chinese museum and panorama -- The ugly face of China : Bayard Taylor's travels in Asia -- Traditional China and Chinese Yankees : the Centennial Exposition of 1876.…”
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Listening to China : sound and the Sino-Western encounter, 1770-1839 / by Irvine, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Process and perspective -- China and the enlightened ear -- Soundscapes in the contact zone : listening in Canton, 1770-1839 -- Charles Burney discovers China -- Sound and the Macartney Mission, 1792-1794 -- Reading Burney listening to China -- Listening to China with Forkel and Marx -- Epilogue. …”

Reform in China Huang Tsun-hsien and the Japanese Model / by Kamachi, Noriko

Table of Contents: “…Preliminary Material -- Huang Tsun-hsien's Native Home -- Discovery of Japan: The Eastern Frontier of the Chinese World -- Westernization in Early Meiji Japan -- Japan's Aggression on China's Periphery -- California, 1882-1885: Confrontation with Racial Antagonism -- Reform Proposals for China: Completion of Treatises on Japan -- The Other Half of the Globe: Reflections in London and Singapore -- The Sino-Japanese War and the Post-War Reform Movement -- Master of the Jen-ching-lu: Hope for a New China -- Conclusion -- A Simplified Chart of the Genealogy of Huang Tsun-hsien -- A List of the Staff Members of the Chinese Diplomatic Mission in Japan -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.…”
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China and the West : reconsidering Chinese reverse glass painting /

Subjects: “…Glass underpainting China History 18th century.…”
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China and the West : Reconsidering Chinese Reverse Glass Painting. by Ambrosio, Elisa

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China bound : John Swire & Sons and its world, 1816-1980 / by Bickers, Robert A.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Companies and Institutions -- Pronunciation guide -- Chapter 1: Taikoo -- Chapter 2: Liverpool's World -- Chapter 3: Orientation -- Chapter 4: Strange Revolution -- Chapter 5: Sweet Smell of Hong Kong -- Chapter 6: At Work -- Chapter 7: Shipping People -- Chapter 8: New Eras -- Chapter 9: New China -- Chapter 10: Building Bridges -- Chapter 11: Catastrophe -- Chapter 12: Flight -- Chapter 13: Making Asia -- Chapter 14: Making Hong Kong -- Chapter 15: Here -- Chapter 16: Today -- Acknowledgements -- Archival Sources…”
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China pluperfect. by Vigneron, Frank

Table of Contents: “…Episteme in the Works of Michel Foucault -- "Passeurs": The Jesuits in China -- "Passeurs": Chinoiseries -- Conditions of Passage -- Change of Episteme in China -- Literati Tradition in Painting -- Dualism in Chinese Portrait Painting -- Misreading by the Jesuit Portrait Painters -- Misreading as Opening -- The Idea of Period Style as Life Cycle -- Art Classifications before the Republic -- Originality and Copying -- A Brief History of Chinese Art History -- Teleological Process -- Modern and Postmodern -- From Antiquarianism to Chaos Script -- Brush -- Opening-Closing -- Performativity -- Conclusion: Multi-epistemic World.…”
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China pluperfect. by Vigneron, Frank

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Modern China : a brief history / by Rowe, David Nelson, 1905-

“…China History 19th century.…”

Modern China : from mandarin to commissar /

“…China History 19th century.…”

The China station : war and diplomacy 1830-1860 / by Graham, Gerald Sandford, 1903-

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The Modernization of China /

“…China History 19th century.…”

China unbound : evolving perspectives on the Chinese past / by Cohen, Paul A.

“…China History 19th century.…”

Baudelaire in China : a study in literary reception / by Bien, Gloria

Subjects: “…Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 Appreciation China.…”

China in revolution : the road to 1911 / by Liu, Heung Shing, 1951-

“…China History Revolution, 1911-1912 Pictorial works.…”

Writing China : essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Writing China /…”

Out of China : how the Chinese ended the era of Western domination / by Bickers, Robert A.

Table of Contents: “…Armistice -- Making revolution -- Good earth -- Talking it over -- China in the mind -- Monkeys riding greyhounds -- Allies of a kind -- Foreign experts -- Light of Asia -- Monsters and demons -- Unfinished business -- Haunted by history.…”

Modern China : an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism /

Subjects: “…Nationalism China History 19th century Encyclopedias.…”
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China unbound : evolving perspectives on the Chinese past / by Cohen, Paul A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: China unbound. -- Wang Tao in a changing world. -- Moving beyond "Tradition and modernity". -- New perspectives on the Boxers: the view from anthropology. -- Boxers, Christians, and the gods: the Boxer conflict of 1900 as a religious war. -- Ambiguities of a watershed date: the 1949 divide in Chinese history. -- Remembering and forgetting national humiliation in twentieth-century China. -- Revisiting Discovering history in China. -- Three ways of knowing the past.…”
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