Oriental Networks : : Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century / / ed. by Greg Clingham, Bärbel Czennia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Cahill, Samara Anne,; Clingham, Greg,; Cope, Kevin L.,; Coulton, Richard,; Czennia, Bärbel,; Hargrave, Jennifer L.,; Howard-Smith, Stephanie,; Watt, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Clingham, Greg,; Czennia, Bärbel,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 18 b-w images, 18 color images

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of improving transportation technology, expansion of intercultural contacts, and the emergence of a global economy. In eight case studies and a substantial intr...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: Oriental Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century
• 1. Knowing and Growing Tea: China, Britain, and the Formation of a Modern Global Commodity
• 2. China-Pugs: The Global Circulation of Chinoiseries, Porcelain, and Lapdogs, 1660–1800
• 3. Green Rubies from the Ganges: Eighteenth-Century Gardening as Intercultural Networking
• 4. The Blood of Noble Martyrs: Penelope Aubin’s Global Economy of Virtue as Critique of Imperial Networks
• 5. Robert Morrison and the Dialogic Representation of Imperial China
• 6. At Home with Empire? Charles Lamb, the East India Company, and “The South Sea House”
• 7. Commerce and Cosmology on Lord George Macartney’s Embassy to China, 1792–1794
• 8. Extreme Networking: Maria Graham’s Mountaintop, Underground, Intercontinental, and Otherwise Multidimensional Connections
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index