New Issue of GNCS Explores "Symbiotic Empires: Britain and East Asia in the Long Nineteenth Century"

INTRODUCTION

SYMBIOTIC EMPIRES: BRITAIN AND EAST ASIA IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY

DI COTOFAN WU AND AARON EAMES

RESEARCH ARTICLES

BEYOND IMPERIAL NARRATIVES: THE SILK SCROLL PORTRAIT OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SINO-BRITISH OPIUM WARS (1839–1860)

DI COTOFAN WU

OLD BLUE MANIA: CHINESE BLUE-AND-WHITE PORCELAINS IN THE AESTHETIC ‘HOUSE BEAUTIFUL’ C. 1860 TO 1900 – COSMOPOLITANISM AND APPROPRIATION

ANNE ANDERSON

THE ORIENT SEEN THROUGH IMPERIALIST EYES: BRITISH LANDSCAPE IMAGERY OF KOREA IN THE 1880S TO 1910S

JESS JIYUN SON

BANZAI FOR OSCAR WILDE: HIROSHI HIRAI’S LETTERS TO ROBERT HARBOROUGH SHERARD

AARON EAMES

PIRATING THE ARCHIVE: TIMOTHY MO’S OPIUM HISTORY, OCEANIC ORIENTALISM, AND PRINT CARGO AT SEA

CAITLIN VANDERTOP

REVIEWS

DU FEI: Ehrlich, Joshua. The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge

J. BARTON SCOTT: Banerjee, Mou. The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India

RODRIGO ESCRIBANO ROCA: Thurner, Mark and Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge (ed.) The Invention of Humboldt. On the Geopolitics of Knowledge

APARAJITA MAJUMDAR: Jackson, Kyle. The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj: Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890–1920

DEBORAH BESSEGHINI: Martín Schlez, Mariano. The Woodbine Parish Report on the Revolutions in South America (1822): The Foreign Office and Early British Intelligence on Latin America

DÁVID SZŐK: Bojti, Zsolt. Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature: Wilde, Stenbock, Prime-Stevenson

TOM UE: Gissing, George. The Odd Women, with a conversation between Merve Emre and Adam Dalva