Britain's Chinese Eye

Britain's Chinese Eye
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9780804759458
ISBN-13 : 0804759456
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Book Synopsis Britain's Chinese Eye by : Elizabeth Chang

Download or read book Britain's Chinese Eye written by Elizabeth Chang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts.


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