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Introduction: British literature of the late Ming and early Qingdynasties; 1. The far east, the East India Company, and the Englishimagination; 2. China and the limits of Eurocentric history: Milton,the Jesuits, and the Jews of Kaifeng; 3. 'Prudently present yourregular tribute': civility, ceremony, and European rivalry in QingChina; 4. Heroic merchants: trade, nationalism, and abjection inDryden's Amboyna; 5. 'I have now done with my island, and all manner ofdiscourse about it': Crusoe's Farther Adventures in the far east; 6.'So inexhaustible a treasure of gold': Defoe, credit, and the romanceof the South Seas; 7. Gulliver, the Japanese, and the fantasy ofEuropean abjection; Epilogue; Bibliography.