本書是作者過去十年間在中國的外銷藝術研究之成果，本書廣泛使用了不少中外原始史料，搜羅了很多珍貴又從未發表過的外銷藝術品，目的是為讀者展示中國外銷畫之重要性和影響，對中國藝術史的書寫別具參考價值。

●Introduction
Current scholarships on the study of China trade painting
1.1 James Orange's The Chater Collection
1.2 Chinese Export Art in the Eighteenth Century by Margaret Jourdain
1.3 Carl Crossman's The China Trade
1.4 Craig Clunas's writings on Chinese export art
1.5 Major exhibition catalogues and research papers on Chinese export art
Moulding for the West
2.1 Chinqua—Early Chinese modellers working at Madras
2.2 Clay portraits of the Danes by Chinese modellers
2.3 Chitqua, the modeller who steals likeness
Adoption of Western media by Chinese trade painters
3.1 Reverse glass paintings in mid-eighteenth century Canton
3.2 Early Chinese reverse paintings collected in The Chinese Pavilion
3.3 Spoilum / Spillem—The earliest known trade painter in Canton
Desire for things Chinese
4.1 Pu-Qua's influence to Masons The Costume of China and other engravings
4.2 Representations of street characters
4.3 Duplicates of Pu-Qua's drawings
4.4 A New discovery on Mackson's Pu-Qua's drawings
Lamqua, the Thomas Lawrence of China
5.1 How many Lamquas?
5.2 Ihe identity of Lamqua
5.3 Lamqua vs George Chinnery
5.4 Images of Lamqua with Western eyes
5.5 Beyond commerce—Lamqua's medical pictures
Oil portraits by Lamqua
6.1 Portraits of Westerners
6.2 Portraits of Chinese officials and merchants
6.3 Diplomatic exchange of portraits between the Chinese and the Westerners
6.4 Lamqua's view and practice on western style portrait
6.5 Lamqua's painter studio—The secret of Chinese oil painting unveiled
6.6 Relocation of art business to Hong Kong
Flourish of China trade painting market since 1840s
7.1 Sunqua and his studio
7.2 Assorted views of China by Tingqua's studio
7.3 Implication of Samqua's drawings
7.4 Monumental landscapes by Youqua
7.5 Nam Cheong and views of Whampoa
7.6 Inspiration from and integration with photography
Bibliography
Appendix 1 Pu-Qua's drawings in Victoria & Albert seum
Appendix 2 George Henry Mason's The Costume of China, 1800
Appendix 3 PEM/E83895A Drawings of Chinese traders
Appendix 4 PEM/E83942 Dessin de la Chine
Appendix 5 Drawings of Chinese traders in the Phillips Library
Appendix 6 Tinqua's album leaves, d. 1851
Appendix 7 Ink drawings by Samqua, d. before 1847
Colour Plates

本書的內容為藝術史研究成果，全書通過剖析學術界就中國外銷畫研究之種種問題，以及當前海內外就此研究的狀況，反映外銷畫是跟中外貿易和文化交流有多重關繫的藝術品。作者研究十八至十九世紀外銷畫的發展史，從側門展示了中國外銷話在藝術史研究中的重要性和影響。本書對我們了解近現代外銷畫的發展和貿易有較大幫助，對從事近現代藝術史研究人員來說具有較強的參考價值作用。

李世莊(Jack S C Lee) 著 著

    It is not surprising to know that Lamqua already gained his reputation in the 1830s ashis name appeared frequently in many contemporary Westerners travel journals anddescriptions. One of the reasons for his fame is perhaps his legendary encounter withGeorge Chinnery, the celebrated British painter who has settled in the China coastsince the 1820s. Having sojourned in India 等