1. George Staunton, An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China (London: Bulmer, 1797), 128; Proudfoot, Memoir of James Dinwiddle, 45.
2. François Jullien, The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China ( New York: Zone, 1999 ), 131–161.
3. Arthur O. Lovejoy, “The First Gothic Revival and the Return to Nature,” in Essays in the History of Ideas ( New York: George Braziller, 1955 ), 153–158.
4. Osvald Sirén, China and the Gardens of Europe in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Ronald Press, 1950). On chinoiserie and European garden culture, see Porter, The Chinese Taste, 45–54.
5. R. C. Bald, “Sir William Chambers and the Chinese Garden,” Journal of the History of Ideas 11, no. 3 (June 1950): 287–320; Porter, The Chinese Taste, 40–42.