A floating Chinaman : fantasy and failure across the Pacific /

A Floating Chinaman is, in the broadest sense, a book about who gets to speak for China. The title is taken from a lost manuscript by H.T. Tsiang, a Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels in the 1930s, a time when China was recast as a rich, unexplored mystery to th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hsu, Hua, 1977- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Subjects:	Tsiang, H. T., > 1899-1971. China > Foreign public opinion, American > History > 20th century. Public opinion in literature. Authors and publishers > United States > History > 20th century. United States > Foreign relations > China. China > Foreign relations > United States.

Table of Contents:

Chinese whispers
Naïve melody
Four hundred million customers
A pilgrim, protesting
New York ghost
Chinatown, USA, world
Too big to fail.