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Writing China - Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations (Hardcover)
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Writing China - Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations (Hardcover)
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New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship
between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on
the Amherst diplomatic problem. On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst,
exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China,
was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to attend an
immediate audience with the Jiaqing Emperor at the Summer Palace of
Yuanming Yuan. Fatigued and separated from his diplomatic
credentials and ambassadorial robes, Amherst resisted, and left the
palace in anger. The emperor, believing he had been insulted,
dismissed the embassy without granting it animperial audience and
rejected its "tribute" of gifts. This diplomatic incident caused
considerable disquiet at the time. Some 200 years later, it is
timely in 2016 to consider once again the complex and vexed
historical andcultural relations between two of the
nineteenth-century world's largest empires. The interdisciplinary
essays in this volume engage with the most recent work on British
cultural representations of, and exchanges with, Qing
China,extending our existing but still provisional understandings
of this area of study in new and exciting directions. They cover
such subjects as female foot binding; English and Chinese pastoral
poetry; translations; representationsof the trade in tea and opium;
Tibet; and the political, cultural and environmental contexts of
the Amherst embassy itself. Featuring British and Chinese writers
such as Edmund Spenser, Wu Cheng'en, Thomas De Quincey, Oscar
Wilde, James Hilton, and Zhuangzi, these essays take forward the
compelling and highly relevant subject for today of Britain and
China's relationship. Peter J. Kitson is Professor of English at
the University of East Anglia;Robert Markley is W.D. and Sara E.
Trowbridge Professor of English at the University of Illinois.
Contributors: Elizabeth Chang, Peter J. Kitson, Eugenia
Zuroski-Jenkins, Zhang Longxi, Mingjun Lu, Robert Markley, EunKyung
Min, Q.S. Tong
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