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The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback, New edition)
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The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback, New edition)
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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. In this book, 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 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.
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