PREFACE
CHAPTER Ⅰ SIRWILLIAM TEMPLE AND HIS PREDECESSORS
Early Cultural Relations of England and China — "Catalan" in Shakespeare — "Cathaian Can" in Milton — China in Voyages and Travels — The English in China — The Chinese in England — The Christian Missionaries and their Translation of Confucian Classics —Sir William Temple and the "Sharawadgi" — Temple and Confucianism.
CHAPTER Ⅱ THE FREETHINKERS
"L''Affaire des Chinois" — Confucianism and English Deists: Collins;Tindal; Chubb — Chevalier de Ramsay as Mediator of Confucianism and Christianity — Bolingbroke and Confucianism — Voltaire on Confucianism and his Influence in England — English Attacks on Voltaire, on Confucius, and on Chinese Wisdom.
CHAPTER Ⅲ THE JOURNALISTS
China in the Addisonian Periodicals — Defoe as an Irrational Critic of China — Du Halde''s Description of China in England — Chinese Culture and Political Journalists: Budgell; Chesterfield; the Writers of Craftsman and Daily Gazetteer — An Irregular Dissertation.
CHAPTER Ⅳ THE CONNOISSEURS
The "Chinoiseries" in England — Their Effect on English Life and Letters — Horace Walpole and the "Chinoiseries" — Richard Owen Cambridge and the Chinese Garden — Essays on the Chinese Taste in The World and The Connoisseur.
CHAPTER Ⅴ THE PLAYWRIGHTS
Sir Francis Fane''s The Sacrifice — Elkannah Settle''s The Conquest of China and The Fairy Queen — Le Petit Orphelin de la Maison de Tchao — William Hatchett''s The Chinese Orphan — Chinese Harlequins — Jean George Noverre''s The Chinese Festival — Voltaire''s L''Orphelin de la Chine — Arthur Murphy''s The Orphan of China" its Relation to the Chinese Original and the Previous Adaptations; its Chinese Atmosphere; its Success on the Stage.
CHAPTER Ⅵ OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Goldsmith and Chinese Letters — The Idea of the "Citizen of the World" — "Il est un philosophe a sa maniere" — Goldsmith as an Interpreter of Chinese Culture — Goldsmith as a Critic of the "Chinoiseries" in England.
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
Ⅰ Chronology
Ⅱ Three Essays Relating to the Chinese
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ⅰ General Works
Ⅱ Special Works
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A single instance will be sufficient to show his method of procedure.On the Chinese notion of the Deity, he quotes the following authorities:
In the Kings, or canonical books of Confucius, God is named Chan—Ti, orthe Sovereign Emperor, and Tien, the supreme (sic) Heaven, the august Heaven,the intelligent Heaven, the self—existent Unity, who is present every where, andwho produced all things by his power...
Konany—antse, a very ancient philosopher, in commenting upon the samesacred books, says, "Heaven and earth, tho" they be of an immense extent, havefigure, colour, number, and quantity.I conceive something that has neithercolour, number, figure, nor quantity; and therefore I say that he who made theheavens and the earth is intelligent and eternal.He who produced all things wasnot produced himself; he who destroys all things, is indestructible; therefore hewho made the heavens is not the heavens, and he who made the earth is not theearth; the heavens are not self—existent, but were produced by another, as a housecannot exist by itself, unless it be made.