Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Sympathy and Orientalism 1
5. 1 Marco Polo’s Fabulous Imperial Connections 27
6. 2 Jesuit Channels between Europe and Asia 74
7. 3 A Genealogy of Cosmopolitan Reading 114
8. 4 News of the Ming Dynasty’s Collapse 155
9. 5 Vondel’s Tragic Chinese Emperor 177
10. 6 Wieland’s Secret History of Cosmopolitanism 196
11. 7 Adam Smith and the Chinese Earthquake 220
12. 8 Goethe Reads the Jesuits 243
13. 9 Chinese-German Pairings 269
14. 10 World Literature and Goethe’s Chinese Poetry 296
15. Bibliography 355
16. Index 381