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The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England

By David Porter

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About the book

Eighteenth-century consumers in Britain, living in an increasingly globalised world, were infatuated with exotic Chinese and Chinese-styled goods, art and decorative objects. However, they were also often troubled by the alien aesthetic sensibility these goods embodied. This ambivalence figures centrally in the period's experience of China and of contact with foreign countries and cultures more generally. In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were ass...Show more

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9781107662377

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2014

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1

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The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England

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