One: Japan: The First Phase, 1550-1850

The Christian Century

The Eighteenth Century

European Influence in Nanga Painting

Western Influence on the Japanese Colour Print

Two: China And European Art, 1600-1800

The Seventeenth Century

The Eighteenth Century

Early Nineteenth-Century Contacts in South China

Three: Europe and Chinese Art, 1600-1900

The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

China and the English Garden

The Nineteenth Century: The Years of Estrangement

Four: Japan: From the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to the Present Day

Art Under the Meiji Emperor: Surrender and Counterattack

Sculpture in the Meiji Era

The Twentieth Century: Japanese-style Painting

The Twentieth Century: Western-style Painting

Japan after the Second World War

The Modern Japanese Print

Japanese Artists Living Abroad

Five: The Revolution in Chinese Art

Art in China from 1800 to 1949

Art in China since 1949

Chinese Painters on the International Scene since the Second World War

Six: Europe and America: From 1850 to the Present Day

Japan and the Impressionists

Japan adn the Post-Impressionists

Oriental Art, the Symbolists and the Nabis

Oriental Art and Twentieth-Century Painting in the West

The American Response to Oriental Art

Epilogue: Some Reflections on the East-West Dialogue