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Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911 / Shih-Wen Chen.

Title
Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911 / Shih-Wen Chen.
Author
Chen, Shih-Wen
Publication
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013.

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Description
203 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Uniform Title
Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.
Subject
  • Children's stories, English > History and criticism
  • Chinese in literature
  • China > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-194) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A kaleidoscope of knowledge: children, knowledge, and China in Victorian Britain -- Exploring the celestial kingdom: William Dalton and Anne Bowman's vision of China -- From comic trickster to brilliant detective: E.H. Burrage's "immortal" Ching-Ching -- Heroes and hostile hordes: representing the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) -- China against the Allies: interpreting the Boxer Uprising (1899-1901) -- Conclusion: Quilts and kaleidoscopes: visions of China in the literary imagination.
ISBN
  • 9781409447351 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1409447359 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781409447368 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781472403414 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2012041273
OCLC
  • 849600305
  • SCSB-12331993
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library