Narratives of free trade : the commercial cultures of early US-China relations /
The twelve essays in this collection focus on the first commercial encounters between an ancient China on the verge of systemic social transformations, and a fledgling United States, struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War with Great Britain. In early ac...
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| Language: | English |
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Hong Kong [China] :
Hong Kong University Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Global connections (Hong Kong University Press)
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Bookkeeping as a window into efficiencies of early modern trade : Europeans, Americans and others in China compared, 1700-1842 / Paul A. Van Dyke
- 2. A question of character : the romance of early Sino-American commerce in the journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the first American consul at Canton (1847) / Kendall Johnson
- 3. China of the American imagination : the influence of trade on US portrayals of China, 1820 to 1850 / John R. Haddad
- 4. Russell and Company and the imperialism of Anglo-American free trade / Sibing He
- 5. Chopsticks or cutlery? : how Canton Hong merchants entertained foreign guests in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / May-bo Ching
- 6. Representing Macao in 1837 : the unpublished peripatetic diary of Caroline Hyde Butler (Laing) / Rogerio Miguel Puga
- 7. The face of diplomacy in nineteenth-century China : Qiying's portrait gifts / Yeewan Koon
- 8. To make a way : telling a story of US-China union through the letters of Henry Adams and John Hay / Paul A. Bove
- 9. The flow of the traders' goddess : Tianhou in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America / Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Yedan Huang
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.