The Chinanization of China: China and the 18th-Century British View of China

Abstract

Abstract: With the homonymic relationship between china and China as its clue, this paper reads closely the 18th century British writings in which the British imagine and know China through china, the ware, and analyzes how China, the country, is reduced to be superficial, fragile and monstrous due to the superficial and fragile materiality of china and its designs that are not drawn in accordance with perspective. This British view of China is featured with chinanization of China and generates the powerfulness and civilizedness of the 18th century Britain.

Key words: china, China, chinanization, the 18th-century, British view of China

Hou Tiejun. The Chinanization of China: China and the 18th-Century British View of China[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2017, 39(2): 72-82.

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