by Linda Pui-ling Wong. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 277-299). / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.iii / Abbreviations --- p.v / Chapter Chapter One --- Chinese Modernity Reconsidered --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two --- The Presence of the Pre-Raphaelites in China --- p.21 / Chapter Chapter Three --- The Cross-cultural Counterparts: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Crescent Moon Society in China --- p.44 / Chapter Chapter Four --- "New Images of Lovers: Chinese Adaptations of Dante Rossetti's ""The Blessed Damozel""" --- p.66 / Chapter Chapter Five --- The Lyrical and Melancholic Women: The Reconstruction of Christina Rossetti --- p.132 / Chapter Chapter Six --- Utopian Thinking in May Fourth China: The Rise of William Morris --- p.152 / Chapter Chapter Seven --- A Patriotic Model for Modern China: The Early W.B. Yeats as a New Romantic --- p.172 / Chapter Chapter Eight --- "The Chinese ""Decadents"": Indebtedness to Algernon Swinburne, Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde" --- p.193 / Chapter Chapter Nine --- "The ""Fleshly School of Poetry""in China?" --- p.244 / rllustrations --- p.272 / Glossary --- p.274 / Bibliography --- p.277