Introduction 1
Ⅰ Medieval Travellers 4
Ⅱ The Sixteenth Century：Fidalgo and Friar 12
Ⅲ The Establishment of the Jesuit Mission to China 22
Ⅳ The Seventeenth Century：Travellers and Scholars 28
Ⅴ The Later Seventeenth Century：A Dutch Account 37
Ⅵ The Court of the Kangxi Emperor 49
Ⅶ The Sinologists of the Eighteenth Century 66
Ⅷ Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot：Qian De Ming 81
ⅰ．The Eight Sources of Sound 88
ⅱ．Amiot's Explanation of the Lù 93
ⅲ．The Third Part of the Mémoire 101
ⅳ．Addenda et Corrigenda 102
Ⅸ The Englishman Abroad：the Embassy of Lord Macartney 104
Ⅹ The Musical Elements of Chinoiserie 122
Ⅺ Conclusion 140
Musical Examples 143
Bibliography 150
Appendix 165
Index 168
Glossary 174