Introduction; 1. Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China; 2. 'A
wonderful stateliness': William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal
School of Sinology; 3. 'They thought that Jesus and Confucius were alike':
Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China; 4. 'Fruits
of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign grafts': the
Canton School of Romantic Sinology: Staunton and Davis; 5. Establishing the
'Great Divide': scientific exchange and the Macartney Embassy; 6. 'You will
be taking a trip into China, I suppose': kowtows, tea cups, and the
evasions of British Romantic writing on China; 7. Chinese gardens,
Confucius, and the prelude; 8. 'Not a bit like the Chinese figures that
adorn our chimney-pieces': orphans and travellers: China on stage;
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