A cross-cultural dialogue: Eighteenth-century British representations of China

This dissertation examines Samuel Johnson's essays about China, the travel accounts of a group of British naval officers and a Scottish physician, John Bell, as actual or symbolic responses to changes in eighteenth-century British society, Continental European representations of China, and contemporary Chinese utterances about the British and European travelers. My cross-cultural and historicist approach points to rival Sino-British perceptions about each other, competing narratives among the European community, and double voices in the primary texts.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Chen, Lianhong

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dussinger, John A.

• Literature, Comparative
• Literature, Asian
• Literature, English

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Chen, Lianhong

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591197655
AAI9712224
(UMI)AAI9712224

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23479