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- Title
DEFOE AND CHINA.
- Authors
Starr, G. A.
- Abstract
The article discusses the opinions of English writer Daniel Defoe regarding China's social order, religion, and government. The author explores why Defoe had such strong Eurocentric notions regarding Asian trade as benefiting China, India and the East India Company, but which ultimately resulted in harm to England, and more broadly to Europe. Defoe satirized tea, porcelain, lightweight fabrics, and their Chinese producers and was cynical of the East India Company's motives, viewing them as being motivated solely for profit as opposed to British economic prosperity.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; CHINA; DEFOE, Daniel, ca. 1661-1731; ORIENTALISM; SATIRE; LITERARY criticism; ENGLISH satire; ENGLISH political satire; EAST-West divide; LITERATURE; EAST India Co.; CHINA description &; travel; BRITISH foreign relations; ENGLISH literature; BRITISH history, 1689-1714
- Publication
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2010, Vol 43, Issue 4, p435
- ISSN
0013-2586
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ecs.0.0150