| Description |
1 online resource (303 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Disclaimer -- Introduction: Thomas Burke's Limehouse Nights: Tales of Chinatown -- Part 1 Chinoiserie -- 1 Enchantment -- Disenchantment -- Chineseries -- Part 2 'The Lamp of Young Aladdin': English Chineseness, 1780-1900 -- 2 'Ritchenesse and Plentiffullnesse' -- 3 The Chineseness of Ala-'u-'d-Din -- 'The Lamp of Young Aladdin' -- 4 Magical Palaces: Chineseries in London -- 5 The Pains of Opium, 1839-1858 -- Thomas De Quincey's Vile Burlesques -- 6 The Fall of Far Cathay, 1859 -- Gas and Glitter: Grand Pantomime -- 7 Finale: From Limelight to Limehouse -- Part 3 Inventing Chinatown -- 8 'A threepenny omnibus ticket from Ludgate Circus to Limey-housey-Causey-way' -- Darkest London -- England's Yellow Peril: The Chinese in London after 1900 -- 9 Cockney John Chinaman -- 10 Thomas Burke: Nights in Town: A London Autobiography (1915) -- The Chinoiserie Slum -- Part 4 The Laureate of Limehouse -- 11 Un monde artificiel des paysages d'opéra-comique -- Limehouse Nights: 'The Father of Yoto' -- 12 Locating Burke's Bohemia -- Romancing the Abyss -- Modernism and China -- Quong Lee -- Part 5 Nympholepsy -- 13 'A Fool and his Folly' -- 14 Erotic Fairylands of the Fin-de-siècle -- 'Wine and dress, and sweeties' -- 15 'Which is the reality, and Which the pantomime?' -- The Girl on the Chinatown Stage -- 16 Juvenile Delinquents in Chinatown -- Broken Blossoms -- 'A Child is Being Beaten' -- Conclusion: Go, Lovely Rose: Reading Burke after Lolita -- A Phantasm -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351879446 |
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1351879448 |
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