PREFACE
CHAPTER I SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE AND HIS PREDECESSORS
Early Cultural Relations of England and China — “Cataian” in Shakespeare — “Cathaian Can” in Milton — China in Voyages and Travels — The English in China — The Chinese in England — The Christian Missionaries and their Translation of Confucian Classics — Sir William Temple and the “Sharawadgi” — Temple and Confucianism.
CHAPTER II THE FREETHINKERS
“L’Affaire des Chinois” — Confucianism and English Deists: Collins; Tindal; Chubb — Chevalier de Ramsay as Mediator of Confucianism and Christianity — Bolingbroke and Confucianism — Voltaire on
Confucianism and his Influence in England — English Attacks on
Voltaire, on Confucius, and on Chinese Wisdom.
CHAPTER III THE JOURNALISTS
China in the Addisonian Periodicals — Defoe as an Irrational Critic of China — Du Halde’s Description of China in England — Chinese Culture and Political Journalists: Budgell; Chesterfield; the Writers of Craftsman and Daily Gazetteer — An Irregular Dissertation.
CHAPTER IV THE CONNOISSEURS
The “Chinoiseries” in England — Their Effect on English Life and Letters — Horace Walpole and the “Chinoiseries” — Richard Owen Cambridge and the Chinese Garden — Essays on the Chinese Taste in The World and The Connoisseur.
CHAPTER V THE PLAYWRIGHTS
Sir Francis Fane’s The Sacrifice — Elkannah Settle’s The Conquest of China and The Fairy Queen — Le Petit Orphelin de la Maison de Tchao — William Hatchett’s The Chinese Orphan — Chinese Harlequins — Jean George Noverre’s The Chinese Festival — Voltaire’s L’Orphelin de la Chine — Arthur Murphy’s The Orphan of China: its Relation to the Chinese Original and the Previous Adaptations; its Chinese Atmosphere; its Success on the Stage.
CHAPTER VI OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Goldsmith and Chinese Letters — The Idea of the “Citizen of the World”— “Il est un philosophe à sa manière” — Goldsmith as an Interpreter of Chinese Culture — Goldsmith as a Critic of the “Chinoiseries” in England.
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
I Chronology
II Three Essays Relating to the Chinese
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I General Works
II Special Works
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