Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century (Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures)

340 Pages·2020·27.666 MB·English

by  Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham

Oriental Networks
Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
Editor: Kat Lecky, Bucknell University
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Oriental Networks
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Culture, Commerce, and
Communication in the
Long Eigh teenth Century
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Names: Czennia, Bärbel, 1961– editor. | Clingham, Greg, editor.
Title: Oriental networks : culture, commerce, and communication in the long
eigh teenth century / edited by Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham.
Description: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2020. |
Series: Aperçus: histories texts cultures | Includes bibliographical
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Subjects: LCSH: East and West— History—18th  century. | Globalization—
History—18th c entury. | Civilization, Modern—18th century. | Social networks—
History—18th  century. | Enlightenment— History—18th  century.
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Introduction: Oriental Networks in the Long
Eigh teenth Century 1
B C
.
Knowing and Growing Tea: China, Britain, and the
Formation of a Modern Global Commodity 34
R C
.
China- Pugs: The Global Circulation of Chinoiseries,
Porcelain, and Lapdogs, 1660–1800 63
S H- S
.
Green Rubies from the Ganges: Eighteenth- Century
Gardening as Intercultural Networking 92
B C
.
The Blood of Noble Martyrs: Penelope Aubin’s Global
Economy of Virtue as Critique of Imperial Networks 132
S A C
.
Robert Morrison and the Dialogic Repre sen ta tion
of Imperial China 152
J L. H
.
At Home with Empire? Charles Lamb, the East India
Com pany, and “The South Sea House” 169
J W
v
.
Commerce and Cosmology on Lord George
Macartney’s Embassy to China, 1792–1794 190
G C
.
Extreme Networking: Maria Graham’s Mountaintop,
Under ground, Intercontinental, and Other wise
Multidimensional Connections 221
K L. C
Acknowl edgments 269
Bibliography 271
Notes on Contributors 307
Index 311
vi Contents
List of Illustrations
1.1 Richard Collins, The Tea Party, c. 1727 40
1.2 William Hogarth, Portrait of a Family, c. 1735 42
1.3 Specimen of tea (Camellia sinensis) collected by
James Cuninghame on the island of Chusan
(Zhoushan), c. 1701 47
1.4 John Miller, “Green Tea, Publish’d according
to Act of Parliament, Dec. 10. 1771.” 52
1.5 Mauk- Sow- U (?), E Chaw, 1772 54
2 .1 A Rare Pair of Chinese Export Figures of Seated
Pug Dogs, Qianlong period (1736–1795) 64
2.2 Wenceslaus Hollar after Johannes Nieuhof,
“The Supreame Monarch of the China- Tartarian
Empire,” 1673 72
2.3 Johann Joachim Kändler (Meissen porcelain
manufactory), Pug Bitch with Puppy and Pug Dog,
c. 1741–1745 77
2.4 Cover, Bow porcelain factory, part of a set listed
as Mug and Cover, c. 1755–1760 82
3.1 South side of Sezincote House, Gloucestershire 109
3.2 Sezincote water garden; cascades 111
3.3 Sezincote water garden with Surya T emple,
designed by Thomas Daniell 112
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3.4 Sezincote, Indian Bridge, designed by Thomas Daniell 113
3.5 John Martin, View of the Temple of Suryah &
Fountain of Maha Dao, with a Distant View of
North Side of Mansion House, c. 1819 116
3.6 Sezincote water garden; detail of Surya T emple 119
7.1 Entry in Sir George Macartney’s Commonplace
Book kept during his Embassy in China, 1792 201
7.2 “Hall of Audiences at Yuen- min- Yuen,” from Sir
George Leonard Staunton, An Au then tic Account
of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the
Emperor of China (London, 1796–1797) 203
7.3 Benjamin Martin, Large orrery, London, 1766 206
7.4 Benjamin Martin, Orrery, London, 1767 207
7.5 Joseph Wright of Derby, A Phi los o pher Giving
That Lecture on the Orrery, in Which a Lamp
Is Put in Place of the Sun, c. 1766 208
7.6 Thomas Wright, Machina Coelestis, or the
Great Orrery, 1730 209
7.7 Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, model of telescope
used in discovery of Uranus, 1781 210
7.8 Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, reflector telescope, 1789 211
8.1 “ Temple of Maha Deo in Bombay,” from
Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in India (1813) 228
8.2 “Banian Tree,” from Maria Graham, Journal of a
Residence in India (1813) 229
8.3 “Temporary Bridge & Bungalo at Barbareen”
(tomb of a Muslim saint), from Maria Graham,
Journal of a Residence in India (1813) 229
8.4 “Larangeiros,” from Maria Graham, Journal of
a Voyage to Brazil (1824) 232
8.5 “View of the Corcovado,” from Maria Graham,
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (1824) 233
viii List of Illustrations
8.6 “San Cristovaõ,” from Maria Graham, Journal of
a Voyage to Brazil (1824) 234
8.7 “Rio, from the Gloria Hill,” from Maria Graham,
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (1824) 235
8.8 Visualization of Internet Usage (2015) 240
8.9 “Doña Maria de Jesus,” from Maria Graham,
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (1824) 242
8.10 Elephanta Caves today 248
8.11 Figures in the Caves at Elephanta, from
Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in India (1813) 249
8.12 “Interior of the Great Cave at Carli,” from
Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in India (1813) 250
8.13 “Entrance to the Great Cave at Kenary,” from
Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in India (1813) 251
List of Illustrations ix