Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie: Limehouse Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown

Contents: Introduction: Thomas Burke's Limehouse Nights: Tales of Chinatown Part 1 Chinoiserie: Enchantment. Part 2 'The Lamp of Young Aladdin': English Chineseness 1780a 1900: 'Ritchenesse and plentiffullnesse' The Chineseness of Ala-'u-'d-din Magical palaces: Chineseries in London The pains of opium, 1839a 1858 The fall of Far Cathay: 1859 Finale: from limelight to Limehouse. Part 3 Inventing Chinatown: A threepenny omnibus ticket to 'Limey-housey-Causey-way' Cockney John Chinaman Thomas Burke: Nights in Town: a London autobiography (1915). Part 4 The Laureate of Limehouse: Un monde artificiel des paysages d'opA(c)ra comique Locating Burke's Bohemia. Part 5 Nymopholepsy: 'A fool and his folly' Erotic fairylands of the fin-de siAcle 'Which is the reality and which the pantomime?' Juvenile delinquents in Chinatown Conclusion: Go, lovely rose: reading Burke after Lolita Bibliography Index.