Chinese Songs in a French Key: How Judith Gautier's Book of Jade Introduced Europe to Chinese Poetry (Hardcover)

1. “An elegant and original volume” by the “most singular of women”: Invention or Translation?
2. “Going to China is like going to the moon”: France Encounters China
3. “One of the most interesting characters of his time”: Professor, Baron, Barnum, or Rake?
4. “For a woman the word impossible no longer exists”: The Challenges of Chinese Poetry
5. “The Celestial Empire unfurls completely throughout this book”: The 1867 Book of Jade
6. “Brushing up against the famous”: Judith Gautier’s Artistic Connections
7. “Greatly enlarged and rigorously corrected”: The Book of Jade, 1902
8. “Radiated beyond the scholarly world”: An Extraordinary Afterlife
Epilogue: “One of the most original talents in contemporary literature”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index