China and the West

Macaualy, Thomas. Works.
1824
Macaulay, Thomas. A prophetic account of a grand national epic poem, to be entitled "The Wellingtoniad", and to be published A.D. 2824. (Nov. 1824). In : The miscellaneous writings of Lord Macaulay. (London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860).
Richard Quongti will be born at Westminster on the 1st of July, 2786. He will be the younger son of the younger branch of one of the most respectable families in England. He will be linearly descended from Quongti, the famous Chinese liberal, who, after the failure of the heroic attempt of his party to obtain a constitution from the Emperor Fim Fam, will take refuge in England, in the twenty-third century. Here his descendants will obtain considerable note; and one branch of the family will be raised to the peerage.

1828
Macaulay, Thomas. Dryden : [a review of] "The poetical works of John Dryden". (London 1826). In : The Edinburgh review ; January (1828).
Everything is definite, significant, and picturesque. His early writings resembled the gigantic works of those Chinese gardeners who attempt to rival nature herself, to form cataracts of terrific height and sound, to raise precipitous ridges of mountains, and to imitate in artificial plantations the vastness and the gloom of some primeval forest.

1828
Macaulay, Thomas. History : [a review of] Neele, Henry. The romance of history : England. (London : Printed for E. Bull, 1828). In : The Edinburgh review ; May (1828).
We stare at a dragoon who has killed three French cuirassiers, as a prodigy; yet we read, without the least disgust, how Godfrey slew his thousands, and Rinaldo his ten thousands. Within the last hundred years, stories about China and Bantam, which ought not to have imposed on an old nurse, were gravely laid down as foundations of political theories by eminent philosophers…
It cost Europe a thousand years of barbarism to escape the fate of China.
They give to the whole book something of the grotesque character of those Chinese pleasure-grounds in which perpendicular rocks of granite start up in the midst of a soft green plain. Invention is shocking where truth is in such close juxtaposition with it…
That great community was then in danger of experiencing a calamity far more terrible than any of the quick, inflammatory, destroying maladies, to which nations are liable,—a tottering, drivelling, paralytic longevity, the immortality of the Struldbrugs, a Chinese civilisation…

1829
Macaulay, Thomas. Mill on government : [a review of] Mill, James. Essays on government, jurisprudence, liberty of the press, prisons and prison discipline, colonies, law of nations, education. (London : J. Innes, 1828). In : The Edinburgh review ; March (1829).
Mr Mill is not legislating for England or the United States, but for mankind. Is then the interest of a Turk the same with that of the girls who compose his harem? Is the interest of a Chinese the same with that of the woman whom he harnesses to his plough? Is the interest of an Italian the same with that of the daughter whom he devotes to God?

1840
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. Ranke’s history of the Popes. In : The Edinburgh review ; October (1840). [Ranke, Leopold von. The ecclesiastical and political history of the Popes of Rome during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (London : J. Murray, 1840).
The Old World was not wide enough for this strange activity. The Jesuits invaded all the countries which the great maritime discoveries of the preceding age had laid open to European enterprise. They were to be found in the depths of the Peruvian mines, at the marts of the African slave-caravans, on the shores of the Spice Islands, in the observatories of China. They made converts in regions which neither avarice nor curiosity had tempted any of their countrymen to enter; and preached and disputed in tongues of which no other native of the West understood a word.

1849
Macaulay, Thomas. The history of England, from the accession of James II. (London: Longman, 1849).
The truth was that the English exiles were as well known at Amsterdam, and as much stared at in the streets, as if they had been Chinese.

1856
Macaulay, Thomas. Oliver Goldsmith. In : Encyclopedia Britannica ; 8th ed. (1856).
…a superficial and incorrect, but very readable, "History of England," in a series of letters purporting to be addressed by a nobleman to his son; and some very lively and amusing "Sketches of London Society," in a series of letters purporting to be addressed by a Chinese traveller to his friends.