Machine generated contents note: 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; Bibliography.
Forging romantic China : Sino-British cultural exchange, 1760-1840 by Peter J. Kitson. ISBN 9781107045613. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.