A Taste For China

Author : Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199950989
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste for China written by Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Taste for China' offers an account of how literature of the long eighteenth century generated a model of English selfhood dependent on figures of China. It shows how various genres of writing in this period call upon 'things Chinese' to define the tasteful English subject of modernity. Chinoiserie is no mere exotic curiosity in this culture, but a potent, multivalent sign of England's participation in a cosmopolitan world order.

Author : Eugenia Zuroski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190887438
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste for China written by Eugenia Zuroski and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging existing narratives of the relationship between China and Europe, this study establishes how modern English identity evolved through strategies of identifying with rather than against China. Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese objects throughout the long eighteenth century, A Taste for China argues that chinoiserie in literature and material culture played a central role in shaping emergent conceptions of taste and subjectivity. Informed by sources as diverse as the writings of John Locke, Alexander Pope, and Mary Wortley Montagu, Zuroski begins with a consideration of how literature transported cosmopolitan commercial practices into a model of individual and collective identity. She then extends her argument to the vibrant world of Restoration comedy-most notably the controversial The Country Wife by William Wycherley-where Chinese objects are systematically associated with questionable tastes and behaviors. Subsequent chapters draw on Defoe, Pope, and Swift to explore how adventure fiction and satirical poetry use chinoiserie to construct, question, and reimagine the dynamic relationship between people and things. The second half of the eighteenth century sees a marked shift as English subjects anxiously seek to separate themselves from Chinese objects. A reading of texts including Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Jonas Hanway's Essay on Tea shows that the enthrallment with chinoiserie does not disappear, but is rewritten as an aristocratic perversion in midcentury literature that prefigures modern sexuality. Ultimately, at the century's end, it is nearly disavowed altogether, which is evinced in works like Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. A persuasively argued and richly textured monograph on eighteenth-century English culture, A Taste for China will interest scholars of cultural history, thing theory, and East-West relations.

Author : David Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521192994
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England written by David Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century consumers in Britain, living in an increasingly globalized 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 analyzes 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.

Author : Deh-Ta Hsiung
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781740452113
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little Taste of China written by Deh-Ta Hsiung and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the world of Chinese food through the pages of this beautiful little book. The combination of photography and easy recipes will inject the flavours and ingredients of the Orient straight into your home.

Author : Fan Jeremy Zhang
Publisher : Nouvelles éditions Scala
ISBN 13 : 9781857599725
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Taste written by Fan Jeremy Zhang and published by Nouvelles éditions Scala. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Taste offers a rare opportunity to examine more than a hundred objects from five museums in Hubei, China, including metal and porcelain work, jewellery, paintings and sculpture. Highlights include exciting archaeological finds from recently excavated royal tombs and state-commissioned Daoist statues from Mt Wudang that illustrate the luxurious life and religious practice of princely courts in early and mid-Ming China (1368-1644). With essays and entries from seven leading scholars, this beautifully illustrated catalogue offers fresh perspectives on the material culture of China at a time before Europe entered its great age of discovery. Major themes include the impact of state patronage on Daoist and Tibetan Buddhist art, and the role of princely courts in defining late imperial Chinese art and culture. AUTHOR: Fan Jeremy Zhang is Associate Curator of Asian Art at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida. SELLING POINTS: * This beautifully-illustrated catalogue offers fresh perspectives on the material culture of China before Europe entered its great age of discovery * Published to accompany an exhibition at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, October 2015 to January 2016 * Features unpublished photography and new scholarship 140 colour illustrations

Author : Zheng Yi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134510187
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Chinese Print Media written by Zheng Yi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media. It describes and analyses the role of post-reform social stratification in the media, focusing particularly on how the changing practices and institutions of the industry correspond to and accelerate the emergence of a relatively affluent urban leisure-reading market. It argues that this reinvention of Chinese print media vis-à-vis the creation of a post-socialist taste (class) culture is an essential part of the cultural and affective transformations in contemporary Chinese society, and demonstrates how the reinvention of such taste culture effectively creates, through new kinds of reading materials and carefully demarcated target audiences, a middle-class civility that serves as the locus of the new niche media market.

Author : James Ballingall
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 9780719541032
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste of China written by James Ballingall and published by John Murray. This book was released on 1984 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yu Hua
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307739791
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China in Ten Words written by Yu Hua and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In "Disparity," for example, Yu Hua illustrates the expanding gaps that separate citizens of the country. In "Copycat," he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in "Bamboozle," he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud, and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society. Witty, insightful, and courageous, this is a refreshingly candid vision of the "Chinese miracle" and all of its consequences.

Author : Richard Wong
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811851107
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Asian Flavors written by Richard Wong and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghai has long been considered a gateway to the world, and so it's no surprise that its cuisine, with a distinctive blend of Asian and European influences, is beloved among foodies far and wide. In this impressive collection of more than 50 sophisticated yet easy-to-prepare dishes, Shanghai native and culinary expert Richard Wong shares his family recipes that have been updated for the modern table. This amazing cookbook satisfies savory, sweet, or spicy cravings with inspiring recipes like Shanghai Slow-Cooked Chicken, Sweet SoySauced Broccolini, and Spicy Shrimp Chow Mein. Included is a section on stocking a Shanghai pantry with all the essentials for preparing quick, flavorful meals. And with a chapter dedicated to making robust sauces tailored to complement any dish, Modern Asian Flavors is the ultimate passport for a delicious adventure.

Author : Ken Hom
Publisher : Pavilion
ISBN 13 : 9781862057074
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste of China written by Ken Hom and published by Pavilion. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than ninety recipes, Ken Hom's 'A Taste of China' offers a glimpse into Chinese culinary life, from the methods used in humble peasant kitchens to those employed by the Chinese Imperial Court.