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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/faking-origins-imitating-china
 -in-eighteenth-century-english-literature/
SUMMARY:Faking Origins: Imitating China in Eighteenth-Century English Liter
 ature
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\nIn
 -person talk – Seating is limited. Masks are required for all audience m
 embers.\n\nIn this talk\, I attend to the imaginary narrative traffic betw
 een Britain and China in the long eighteenth century with specific attenti
 on to pseudo narratives that display the cultural penchant for pretending\
 , posing\, and counterfeiting textual origins. George Psalmanazar was a Eu
 ropean impostor who pretended to be a native of Formosa\, or modern-day Ta
 iwan. His publication of An Historical and Geographical Description of For
 mosa (1704)\, replete with Oriental fantasy that was “not-quite-China\, 
 not-quite-Japan\, but at the same time not quite not China or Japan\,” c
 elebrates\, appropriates\, and imitates what must be real or imaginary abo
 ut East Asia. His fake biography\, or pseudo ethnography\, helps the Engli
 sh readers envision a community different from their own that in turn dema
 rcates boundaries of the English religion\, cultural values\, and the nove
 l form. By examining how England actively reimagined and reinvented China 
 as both an antithesis and model of English prose fiction\, I attempt to re
 consider the history of the English novel as translational and transnation
 al.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
LOCATION:Common Room (#136)\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, United S
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