Japan und China auf den Jesuitenbühnen des deutschen Sprachgebietes / Ruprecht Wimmer -- Zwischen Integration und Polarisation : die jesuitische Chinamission in der chinesischen Literatur der ausgehenden Ming- und beginnenden Qing-Zeit / Barbara Guber-Dorsch -- Missionary cases in the late-Ming early-Qing / Wu Boya -- Chinese emperors in Martino Martini Sinicae historiae decas prima (1658) / Claudia von Collani -- The traditional list of Chinese emperors in Martino Martini Sinicae historiae decas prima (1658) and Philippe Couplet Tabula chronologica monarchiae sinicae (1686) / Claudia von Collani -- Dramatis personae : original and transcribed Chinese names in Jesuit dramas / John W. Witek -- Chinese plots and heroes on the German Jesuit stage : a moral reevaluation / Anna Bujatti -- The Jesuit plays on China and their relation to the profane literature / Adrian Hsia -- Leibniz und der Einfluss der Jesuitenliteratur im Licht seiner Chinapläne / Rita Widmaier -- Jesuitisches Schriftum als Quellenfundus der China-Japan-Dramen / Claudia von Collani -- Die Frühgeschichte des Christentums in Japan im Überblick / Arcadio Schwabe – Fürstenspiegel in Japandramen / Thomas Immoos -- Gratia Hosokawa, heroine of an opera in Vienna, 1698 / Thomas Immoos -- Jesuit plays on Japan in the Baroque Age / Masahiro Takenaka -- Anhang -- The Freising Titus play / Charles Burnett.

Cover: Tombstone of Fr. Dominique Parrenin 巴多明克安 (1665-1741) from the former “French Cemetery” at Zhengfusi 正福寺, recently discovered at the 北京石刻藝術博物館 (Museum of Stone-Carving Art) in Beijing by Mr. Stary and treated in his note on pages 27-28. -- C. von Collani: Necrology: Knud Lunbaek (1912-1995). -- E. Menegon: Archivo Franciscano Ibero-Oriental (AFIO), Madrid, Spain. -- A. Hsia: The transformation of Chinesia from Jesuitical fiction to Jesuit college drama: a preliminary survey. -- G. Stary: A brief note on the “rediscovery” of some French Jesuits’ tombstones. --C. von Collani: The treatise on Chinese Religions (1623) of N. Longobardi, S.J. -- C. Leung: Etienne Fourmont (1683-1745): the birth of Sinology in the context of the institutions of learning in eighteenth-century France. -- Symposia and new publications.

Historical background : the continental connection / Adrian Hsia -- China in the English literature of the seventeenth century / Qian Zhongshu -- The beginnings of the influence of Chinese culture in England / Fan Cunzhong -- John Webb : a forgotten page in the early history of Sinology in Europe / Chen Shouyi -- China in the English literature of the eighteenth century / Qian Zhongshu -- Daniel Defoe, China's severe critic / Chen Shouyi -- Chinese fables and anti-Walpole journalism / Fan Cunzhong -- Dr. Johnson and Chinese culture / Fan Cunzhong -- Oliver Goldsmith and his Chinese Letters / Chen Shouyi -- Thomas Percy and his Chinese studies / Sir William Jones's Chinese studies / Fan Cunzhong -- The Chinese garden in eighteenth century England / Chen Shouyi -- The Chinese Orphan : a Yuan play : its influence on European drama of the eighteenth century / Chen Shouyi -- The Orphan of the House Zhao in French, English, German, and Hong Kong literature / Adrian Hsia.