Introduction : Beyond Walpole and Chinoiserie -- The impetus for change : Chinese Sharawadgi and English horticultural naturalism -- The ambiguous contrast : the Oriental Tian (Heaven) and the Occidental Zhu (Deus) -- In the name of the ancients : Alexander Pope's iconoclastic georgic -- Landscape and freedom : Joseph Addison's affinity with nature -- The call of the wild : Shaftesbury's revolution of aesthetics and ethics -- The paradigmatic shift : the far eastern influence on western modernity.

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.