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"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. David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Through case studies of individual figures, including William Hogarth and Horace Walpole, and broader reflections on cross-cultural interaction, Porter's readings develop new interpretations of eighteenth-century ideas of luxury, consumption, gender, taste and aesthetic nationalism. Illustrated with many examples of Chinese and Chinese-inspired objects and art, this is a major contribution to eighteenth-century cultural history and to the history of contact and exchange between China and the West"--Provided by publisher.
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Chinese Aesthetics, Social life and customs, Consumption (Economics), Ambivalence, Intellectual life, Popular culture, Relations, Intercultural communication, English Foreign public opinion, History, Great britain, civilization, Great britain, relations, foreign countries, China, relations, foreign countriesTimes
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The Chinese taste in eighteenth-century England
2010, Cambridge University Press
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0521192994 9780521192996
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