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A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism - Global Asias Jenkins, Eugenia Zuroski (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, McMaster University)
A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism - Global Asias
Jenkins, Eugenia Zuroski (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, McMaster University)
Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese things throughout the long eighteenth century, this book argues that chinoiserie in literature and material culture played a central role in shaping emergent conceptions of taste and subjectivity.
288 pages, 17 illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 23, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199950980 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 239 × 155 × 28 mm · 614 g |
| Language | English |