China and the Victorian imagination : empires entwined /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Forman, Ross G.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. English literature > Chinese influences. Great Britain > Civilization > Chinese influences. China > In literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Topsy-turvy Britain and China
The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports
Projecting from possession point: James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong Kong
Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900
Britain "knit and nationalised": Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914
Staging the celestial
A Cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London
Conclusion: No rest for the West.