Mirrors of inscrutability : British textual representation of China and the Chinese, 1880-1940
This dissertation explores British representations of China and the Chinese from around 1880 to 1940. It maintains that much Western representation of China and the Chinese is influenced by a profound psychic need to establish identity through constructions of Otherness. A yearning for Lacan's...
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University of Birmingham
1998
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411867 |