Preface -- Theorizing Sinism: An Analysis of Chinesia -- History as Fiction, Fiction as History: The Manchu Conquest of China in Dutch and English Drama of the 17th Century -- The Chinesian Vision: From the Image of China as a Nation of Christian Converts in the German Fiction of the 17th Century to That of an Ideal State Ruled by Confucianized Tartars in the Drama of Voltaire -- The Transformation of Chinesia from Jesuitical Fiction to Jesuit College Drama: A Preliminary Survey -- The Transplanted Chinese Orphan In England, France, Germany, Italy And his Repatriation to Hong Kong -- Sinism Within a Despotic Oriental Utopia: From Montesquieu's l'Esprit des lois to Albrecht von Haller's Political Novel Usong -- Chinesia in Weimar: The Transition From J.G. Herder's Sinophobia to S. von Seckendorff's Sino-Romanticism -- In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Eschatological Sinism of Hegel, Marx, and Weber -- Bibliography.