Title Invention of China in early modern England : spelling the dragon / Jonathan E. Lux

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (v, 224 pages : color map) Series Early modern literature in history Early modern literature in history. Contents 1. Introduction: The Invention of China in Early Modern England -- 2. Utopian Sinophilism in Early Modern England -- 3. "This Lov'd Golgotha": The China Trade in Early Modern England -- 4. Aftershocks: Changing China -- 5. Conclusions and Reflections Summary The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals used the utopian ideal of China to license all kinds of progressive innovation before chronicling how Englands growing commerce in southeast Asia radically changed Chinas representation in the English discourse community. For the new community of English merchants proposing to trade in Chinese goods, China became the seminal example in the growing discourse community of English Orientalism. It was an absolute or arbitrary authoritarian state, associated with crooked business dealings, and cloaked in a rhetoric of secrecy and exclusiona dangerous exception to the traditions, values, and identities of the emergent English speaking states. Finally, the book points out some of the ways that contemporary English language sources continue to represent this early modern English thought tradition, labelling the complexities of modern China with analytical vocabulary perhaps better suited to the pressing political anxieties of the seventeenth century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 15, 2021) Subject Literature: history & criticism. Literature & literary studies. Asian history. Literary studies: general. Literary Criticism -- Asian -- General. Literary Criticism -- General. History -- Asia -- China. Commerce International relations Public opinion, English SUBJECT China -- Foreign public opinion, English -- History -- 17th century England -- Relations -- China China -- Relations -- England England -- Commerce -- China -- History -- 17th century China -- Commerce -- England -- History -- 17th century Subject China England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030840327 3030840328

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