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Colonial Conversions: Difference, Hierarchy, and History in Early Twentieth-Century Evangelical Propaganda

1992; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 34; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0010417500017722

1475-2999

Nicholas Thomas,

Chinese history and philosophy

Colonial discourse, sometimes referred to in the singular, seems unmanageably vast and heterogeneous, for it must encompass not only the broad field of colonialism's relations and representations which constitutes or arises from the business of official rule, including administrative reports and censuses, but also the works of metropolitan literature and other forms of high culture which deploy images of the exotic or the primitive, paintings of unfamiliar landscapes, tourist guides, anthropological studies, and Oriental fabric designs. Colonial discourse includes chinoiserie, Kim , the Victoria and Albert Museum, Camus' Algerian stories, Frans Post, and Indiana Jones , as well as the Vital Statistics of the Native Population for the Year 1887 and the annual reports from wherever.