Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction: Oriental Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century 1
5. 1. Knowing and Growing Tea: China, Britain, and the Formation of a Modern Global Commodity 34
6. 2. China-Pugs: The Global Circulation of Chinoiseries, Porcelain, and Lapdogs, 1660–1800 63
7. 3. Green Rubies from the Ganges: Eighteenth-Century Gardening as Intercultural Networking 92
8. 4. The Blood of Noble Martyrs: Penelope Aubin’s Global Economy of Virtue as Critique of Imperial Networks 132
9. 5. Robert Morrison and the Dialogic Representation of Imperial China 152
10. 6. At Home with Empire? Charles Lamb, the East India Company, and “The South Sea House” 169
11. 7. Commerce and Cosmology on Lord George Macartney’s Embassy to China, 1792–1794 190
12. 8. Extreme Networking: Maria Graham’s Mountaintop, Underground, Intercontinental, and Otherwise Multidimensional Connections 221
13. Acknowledgments 269
14. Bibliography 271
15. Notes on Contributors 307
16. Index 311