China in Early Romantic Periodicals

William Christie*

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    Abstract

    This essay is concerned with the understanding of China expressed through the wider periodical press. It shows that coverage of work relating to the rest of the world was substantial in the period, pointing out that the role of the periodical in mediating current knowledge about the globe has been substantially overlooked. The essay looks at the broader understanding of China in the period by looking at the representation of the Macartney embassy in a series of periodicals beyond the Quarterly and Edinburgh that have so far dominated our critical purview. Concentrating on reviews of Sir George Staunton's official Authentic Account (1797) of the Macartney Embassy of 1792-1794 and the spectrum of viewpoints it produced, it demonstrates the fluidity and ambivalence of periodical responses to China and the embassy and concludes that it would be wrong to assume that by the end of the eighteenth century, the ideological debate about China was settled.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)25-38
    Number of pages14
    JournalEuropean Romantic Review
    Volume27
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2 Jan 2016

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