Taste for China, A business opportunity Communication technologies

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Author(s): Bordoloi

many seek to overturn triumphalist histories that recount the story of the book as though it were Western and white

Taste for China, A business opportunity Communication technologiesChallenging existing narratives of the relationship between China and Europe, this study establishes how modern English identity evolved through strategies of identifying with rather than against China. Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese objects throughout the long eighteenth century, A Taste for China argues that chinoiserie in literature and material culture played a central role in shaping emergent conceptions of taste and