Invention of China in early modern England : spelling the dragon / Jonathan E. Lux.
2021
DS754.25 .L89 2021eb
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Title
Invention of China in early modern England : spelling the dragon / Jonathan E. Lux.
Author
Lux, Jonathan E., 1983-
ISBN
9783030840327 (electronic bk.)
3030840328 (electronic bk.)
303084031X
9783030840310
3030840328 (electronic bk.)
303084031X
9783030840310
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (v, 224 pages : color map).
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10.1007/978-3-030-84032-7 doi
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DS754.25 .L89 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.4824205109032
Summary
The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals used the utopian ideal of China to license all kinds of progressive innovation before chronicling how Englands growing commerce in southeast Asia radically changed Chinas representation in the English discourse community. For the new community of English merchants proposing to trade in Chinese goods, China became the seminal example in the growing discourse community of English Orientalism. It was an absolute or arbitrary authoritarian state, associated with crooked business dealings, and cloaked in a rhetoric of secrecy and exclusiona dangerous exception to the traditions, values, and identities of the emergent English speaking states. Finally, the book points out some of the ways that contemporary English language sources continue to represent this early modern English thought tradition, labelling the complexities of modern China with analytical vocabulary perhaps better suited to the pressing political anxieties of the seventeenth century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 15, 2021).
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Early modern literature in history.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Invention of China in Early Modern England
2. Utopian Sinophilism in Early Modern England
3. "This Lov'd Golgotha": The China Trade in Early Modern England
4. Aftershocks: Changing China
5. Conclusions and Reflections.
2. Utopian Sinophilism in Early Modern England
3. "This Lov'd Golgotha": The China Trade in Early Modern England
4. Aftershocks: Changing China
5. Conclusions and Reflections.