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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, theJesuits, and the Jews of Kaifeng; 3. 'Prudently present your regulartribute': civility, ceremony, and European rivalry in Qing China; 4. Heroicmerchants: trade, nationalism, and abjection in Dryden's Amboyna; 5. 'I havenow done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it': Crusoe'sFarther 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.