A01=Chi-ming Yang
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Chi-ming Yang
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DSA
Category=DSBD
Chi-ming Yang
China
Chinoiserie
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Eighteenth-century
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Globalization
Language_English
Oriental tale
Orientalism
PA=Available
Performance
Performing China
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
softlaunch
Virtue
Product details
- ISBN 9781421402161
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Dec 2011
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a model of economic and political strength, viewed by many as the greatest empire in the world. While the importance of China to eighteenth-century English consumer culture is well documented, less so is its influence on English values. Through a careful study of the literature, drama, philosophy, and material culture of the period, this book articulates how Chinese culture influenced English ideas about virtue. Discourses of virtue were significantly shaped by the intensified trade with the East Indies. Chi-ming Yang focuses on key forms of virtue-heroism, sincerity, piety, moderation, sensibility, and patriotism-whose meanings and social importance developed in the changing economic climate of the period. She highlights the ways in which English understandings of Eastern values transformed these morals. The book is organized by type of performance-theatrical, ethnographic, and literary-and by performances of gender, identity fraud, and religious conversion.
In her analysis of these works, Yang brings to light surprising connections between figures as disparate as Confucius and a Chinese Amazon and between cultural norms as far removed as Hindu reincarnation and London coffeehouse culture. Part of a new wave of cross-disciplinary scholarship, where Chinese studies meets the British eighteenth century, this novel work will appeal to scholars in a number of fields, including performance studies, East Asian studies, British literature, cultural history, gender studies, and postcolonial studies.
Chi-ming Yang is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
