Foreword

xi

Preface

xv

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

1

Part I Historical and Theoretical Issues

13

Chapter 1: The Chinese Question: A Historical Overview

15

Chapter 2: The Other Question: An Orientalist Discourse?

33

Part II 1888–1901

59

Chapter 3: The ‘Heathen Chinee’

61

I. ‘Those Bad Chinese’: The Bulletin School of Writers

61

II. Faceless Invaders: Fear of the Other in William Lane and Works of Invasion

78

III. Power Over the Chinese: Guy Boothby and Carlton Dawe

87

IV. Hume Nisbet: An Exception?

101