China (Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street)

China and Britain have historically had strained, even antagnoistic, relations. Mrs. Dalloway, in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street," references China as something her husband mentions as a way of trying to reform her impulsive giving: "she remembered how on their honeymoon Dick had shown her the folly of giving impulsively. It was much more important, he said, to get trade with China. Of course he was right." Mr. Dalloway is here upholding a binary between male rationalism (the world of commerce and trade relations) and female emotionality (impulsive giving).