@article{694693,
      recid = {694693},
      author = {Porter, David,},
      title = {The Chinese taste in eighteenth-century England /},
      pages = {x, 230 p. :},
      abstract = {"Eighteenth-century consumers in Britain, living in an  increasingly globalised world, were infatuated with exotic  Chinese and Chinese-styled goods, art, and decorative  objects. However, they were also often troubled by the  alien aesthetic sensibility these goods embodied. This  ambivalence figures centrally in the period's experience of  China and of contact with foreign countries and cultures  more generally. David Porter analyses the processes by  which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within  English culture. Through case studies of individual  figures, including William Hogarth and Horace Walpole, and  broader reflections on cross-cultural interaction, Porter's  readings develop new interpretations of eighteenth-century  ideas of luxury, consumption, gender, taste and aesthetic  nationalism. Illustrated with many examples of Chinese and  Chinese-inspired objects and art, this is a major  contribution to eighteenth-century cultural history and to  the history of contact and exchange between China and the  West"--Provided by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/694693},
}