Beating devils and burning their books : views of China, Japan and the West / edited by Anthony E. Clark.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232) and index.

Contending representations : East-West / Anthony E. Clark -- The Chinese macabre in missionary publications and horror fiction / Eric Reinders -- Rape, baptism, and the 'pig' religion : Chinese images of foreign missionaries during the late nineteenth century / Anthony E. Clark -- In search of a Chinese picturesque : William Alexander, George Chinnery, and the visual image of China in nineteenth-century Britain / Catherine Pagani -- China and the confluence of cultures : overcoming the East-West mind-set / Lionel M. Jensen -- (Mis)conceiving the self in early China : memory and truth in early Chinese autobiographical writing / Matthew Wells -- From beat to hardcore : a new twist on phony Zen / Eric P. Cunningham -- The elusive middle : between romanticism and condemnation in the Buddhist imaginary / Mark T. Unno.

European responses to child abandonment, sale of children and social welfare policies in Ming China / Rachana Sachdev -- Of golden lilies and gentlewomen : constructions of Chinese women in early modern European travel narratives / Qingjun Li -- Earlier moderns : the novel form as national development in China and Europe / Daniel Dooghan -- "A strong resemblance" : Samuel Richardson, Chinese talent-beauty novels, and a secret origin of "world literature" / Ning Ma -- 'Magicians, enchanters, and professional crooks' : early modern understandings of Daoism / Ronnie Littlejohn -- Buddhism and idolatry / Terry Logan Mazurak.