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.

"十八世纪, 英王乔治三世以为乾隆皇帝祝寿之名, 派出以马戛尔尼勋爵为首的庞大访华团. ... 随团画家威廉・亚历山大(William Alexander, 1767-1816) 来华时所绘大部分图画, ... 本书仅以这批图画为主要依据"--P. 1-2 (3rd group).
Original illustrations and English captions collected in the British Library.
Includes bibliographical references.

Europa und die Kaiser von China / Berliner Festspiele ; [Redaktion, Hendrik Budde, Christoph Müller-Hofstede, Gereon Sievernich].
Text in German ; some essays translated from the English, some from the French.
Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Berliner Festspiele, held in Berlin from May 12 to August 18, 1985, dealing with the relations between China and Europe during the period 1240-1816.
Bibliography: p. 383-387.

***Graphic resource: one of the best sources for clear reproductions of images East and West in the European mind, with Jesuit painting and portraiture, European globes, maps, charts; Yuanming Yuan, Beijing and the Forbidden City maps, Chinoiserie, works by Castiglione, Attiret, Verbiest, W. Alexander, Amiot. Many illustrations taken from Western books on China, including title pages.

"The dissertation focuses on the changing western image of China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Post-Modernist studies in the China field always maintain the images of China in Europe were distorted, misrepresented, deformed or demonized by the West. Returning to the historical environment this thesis examines the issue by an empirical approach in which the process of China pictures first appeared and was produced in Europe from the middle 17th century to the Opium War is clearly documented. The first part of this dissertation is a historical narrative of the China paintings and drawings by draughtsman, engravers, scholars, geographers, botanists, and missionaries. Included in our discussion are: (i) the China paintings by early traders as represented by John Nieuhof the draughtsman of Dutch East India Company during his voyage to China and Montanus's Atlas Chinensis; (ii) the Catholic Jesuits works about China: Michael Boym's Atlas Imperii Sinarum and Flora Sinensis Martino Martini's Novus Atlas Sinensis and Athanasius Kircher's China Illustrata; (iii) William Alexander who accompanied Earl Macartney's embassy to China and who during the trip produced several books with illustrations about the costume of China. Also included in this category is the engraving volume of George Staunton's An Authentic Account of an Embassy From the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; (iv) Commercial artists' China paintings in the early 19th century. They included British painter George Chinnery and his works--portraits landscapes and sketches done in Macao and Canton; (v) Finally the European artists who captured the China image in the eve of the Opium War such as French artists Auguste Borget's Sketches of China and the Chinese and Honore Daumier's illustrations in Voyage en Chine etc. The second part of this dissertation focuses on the above thematic expressions from these China paintings: (i) image of Chinese cities; (ii) customs and costumes; (iii) plants and flora. In each theme exemplary paintings and illustrations are carefully discussed and analyzed with the aim to finding out what kind of concerns and understanding these westerners had about China and how this knowing and understanding influenced the popular image of the Middle Kingdom in the European mind before the real conflict and military encounter between the east and west in the nineteenth century."--OCLC record.

***Graphic resource: 24 p. of engravings of Chinese life, similar to British engravings of the period (mid-19th century).