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The romance of China : excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776-1876 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haddad, John Rogers
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Americans > Travel > China > History > 19th century.
United States > Civilization > Chinese influences.
United States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
China > Foreign public opinion, American > History > 19th century.
China > Civilization > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
Public opinion > United States > History > 19th century.
China > Description and travel.
China > In popular culture.
United States > Relations > China.
China > Relations > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Xanadu : an envoy at the throne of a monarch
  • Romantic domesticity : a Chinese world invented at home
  • Pursuing the China effect : a country described through marketing
  • China in miniature : Nathan Dunn's Chinese museum
  • A floating ethnology : the strange voyage of the Chinese junk Keying
  • God's China : the Middle Kingdom of Samuel Wells Williams
  • The cultural fruits of diplomacy : Chinese museum and panorama
  • The ugly face of China : Bayard Taylor's travels in Asia
  • Traditional China and Chinese Yankees : the Centennial Exposition of 1876.