Chapter One. Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Italian Writings on China.
1. Italy ''Rediscovers" China. a. A Brief Historical Overview (ca. 1500-1700). b. The First Accounts: Ramusio and G. B. Maffei. 2. The Eye Witness Reports. a. Missionary Writings: Martini and Intorcetta. B. Merchant and Secular Reports: Carletti and Gemelli-Careri. 3. Italians at Home. a. Travel Accounts "Once-Removed:" Bartoli and Magalotti. b. Scholary Works: The China of the lntellectuals.
Chapter Two. The Italian Reception of China in the Eighteenth Century. Part One: 1700-1747.
a. The Missionary Dream Splinters: Writings on China by Religious. b. Opinions Multiply: Merchant Reports and Secular Compilations. c. Ruminations on Italian Soil: China According to the Scholars.
Part Two: 1748-1770. a. French Voices: Italy's Intellectual Importations. 1.Voltaire. 2. Montesquieu. 3. Rousseau. b. Italian Arguments: The Chinese Debate Escalates. 1. Genovesi. 2. Baretti and the Verri Brothers. 3. Algarotti, Parini, Beccaria.
Part Three: 1770-1812 ca. a.The Chinese Myth Endures: Late Settecento Supporters of China. 1. Galiani. 2. Filangieri. 3. Carli. b. New Scrutiny: China in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy. 1. Foscolo.
Chapter Three. Chiari's Chinese Adventure: La schiava cinese (1753) and Le sorelle cinesi (1754)
Chapter Four. Goldoni Goes to China: L 'isola disabitata (1757)
Chapter Five. China Refracted by Gozzi: Turandot 1762)
Conclusion.

Forging romantic China : Sino-British cultural exchange, 1760-1840 / Peter J. Kitson.

"The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women during the Romantic period. The new perceptions of China that it gave rise to were mediated via a dynamic print culture to a diverse range of poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists and reviewers, including Jane Austen, Thomas Percy, William Jones, S.T. Coleridge, George Colman, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others, informing new British understandings and imaginings of China on the eve of the Opium War of 1839-42. Kitson aims to restore China to its true global presence in our understandings of the culture and literature of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-299) and index.

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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