The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England

by David Porter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107662370
• ISBN13: 9781107662377
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"