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Missionaries played a significant role in presenting China to a French Canadian audience. Whatever the "heritage" missionaries in French Canada left before 1960, China was undoubtedly their greatest effort and it did leave a historical legacy. Despite the cultural gap, French Canadian literature focused on China because of the historic Jesuit links, the Sainte-Enfance [Holy Childhood], and missionaries who brought two distant cultures into contact. Even though Quebec secularized during the 1960s, the China endeavor maintained avid French Canadian interest in China to the present day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluates a bibliography of French-language representations of India from 1763 to 2002. Information on the fiction and non-fiction lists; Categories and classification; Details on the bibliography's note on archives and institutions.

Studies the introduction of orientalism to Quebec and its sporadic relations with Asia in the twentieth century. Information on the global trade between India and Quebec; Policy of the Canadian government towards the Orient; Role of the missionary movement in the introduction of orientalism in Quebec.