PREFACE CHAPTER Ⅰ SIRWILLIAM TEMPLE AND HIS PREDECESSORS Early Cultural Relations of England and China — "Catalan" 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 a sa maniere" — 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
