Foreword

Preface

Note on Transliteration from Chinese

I  Medieval Travllers

II  The Sixteenth Century:Fidalgo and Friar

III The Establishment of the Jesuit Mission to China

IV The Seventeenth Century :TraveIIers and Scholars

V   The Later Seventeenth Century :A Dutch Account

VI  The Court of the Kangxi Emperor

VII  The Sinologists of the Eighteenth Century

VIII  Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot : Qian De Ming

i.The Eight Sources of Sound

ii. Amiot ' s Explanation of the Lu

iii.  The Third part of the Memoire

iv.  Addenda et Corrigenda

Ix.  The Englishman Abroad : the Embassy of Lorg Macartney

X.   The Musical  Elements of Chinoiserie

XI.  Conclusion

Musical Examples

Bibliography

Appendix

Index

GIossary