China and the Victorian imagination: empires entwined

Introduction: Topsy-turvy Britain and China

The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports

Projecting from possession point: James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong Kong

Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900

Britain "knit and nationalised": Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914

Staging the celestial

A Cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London

Conclusion: No rest for the West.