| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Global connections
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Global connections.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This collection of essays discusses the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of social transformation and a fledgling United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War with Great Britain. |
| 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 Representing Macao in 1837 : the unpublished peripatetic diary of Caroline Hyde Butler (Laing) / Rogerio Miguel Puga -- 7.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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Commerce -- China -- History -- 18th century.
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United States. |
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Commerce. |
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China. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
China -- Commerce -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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United States -- Commerce -- China -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
China -- Commerce -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Kendall, 1969-
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| Added Title |
Commercial cultures of early US-China relations |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Narratives of free trade. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, ©2012 9789888083534 (OCoLC)713189803 |
| ISBN |
9789888053902 (electronic book) |
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9888053906 (electronic book) |
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9789888083534 |
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9888083538 |
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