Asia in Western Fiction

x, 229 pages ; 24 cm. Contents: Images of Asia and Asians in European fiction, 1500-1800 / Donald F. Lach and Theodore Nicholas Foss Muslims in English-language fiction / Gavin R.G. Hambly The literature of the Raj / Robin Jared Lewis Imagining India: English-language fiction set in post-independence India / Ainslie T. Embree The Himalayas in fact and fiction / Luree Miller Chinese fictions in the twentieth century / Jonathan D. Spence Hong Kong: fragrant harbour, city of sin and death / C. Mary Turnbull Journeys to Java: western fiction about Indonesia, 1600-1980 / James R. Rush Fear and fascination in the tropics: a reader's guide to French fiction on Indo-China / Milton Osborne The Philippines in mass-market novels / Morton J. Netzorg Taking Japan seriously: some western literary portrayals of the Japanese during the climax of their national self-assertion, c. 1905-c. 1945 / D.N. Lammers.