Tribute and trade : China and global modernity, 1784-1935 / edited by William Christie, Angela Dunstan and Q.S. Tong.

Introduction: China and the West in the Long Eighteenth Century / William Christie -- 'That full complement of riches': China and the Problems of Political Economy in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations / Robert Markley -- Cultural Cross-Dressing in the House of Pankeequa / William Christie -- The Lady Hughes Affair, Extraterritoriality, and the Limits of Liberalism / Q.S. Tong -- Once Upon a Time in 1784: American Mercantile Biographies and the Romance of Free Trade Imperialism / Kendall A. Johnson -- 'What stories I shall have to tell!': Mediating China in the Writings of Charles Lamb and Thomas Manning / James Watt -- Global Contacts of Canton in the Qing Dynasty: A Discussion of Export Painting / Yinghe Jiang -- 'A desperate traffic': John Francis Davis, China, the Opium Trade and First Opium War / Peter Kitson -- Walter Scott's Writing, Collecting and Reading China / Kang-yen Chiu -- 'Sheer Memory': The Victorian Idea of Confucian Education / Dongqing Wang -- The Life and Death and Life of Augustus Raymond Margary / Elizabeth Hope Chang -- Linguistic Nationalism and Its Discontents: Chinese Latinisation and Its Practice of Equality / Lorraine Wong.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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P>Tribute and Trade: China and GlobalModernity explores encounters between China and the West during thisperiod and beyond, into the early 20th century, through examples drawn fromart, literature, science, politics, music, cooking, clothing and more.

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