Abstract
Introduction: British literature of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties 1. The Far East, the East India Company, and the English imagination 2. China and the limits of Eurocentric history: Milton, the Jesuits, and the Jews of Kaifeng 3. 'Prudently present your regular tribute': civility, ceremony, and European rivalry in Qing China 4. Heroic merchants: trade, nationalism, and abjection in Dryden's Amboyna 5. 'I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it': Crusoe's Farther Adventures in the far east 6. 'So inexhaustible a treasure of gold': Defoe, credit, and the romance of the South Seas 7. Gulliver, the Japanese, and the fantasy of European abjection Epilogue Bibliography.
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