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

Author/creator Haddad, John Rogers
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxxii, 321 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Americans--Travel. --China. --History. --19th century.
Public opinion--United States. --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.
China--Description and travel.
China--In popular culture.
United States--Relations. --China.
China--Relations. --United States.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [305]-321).
LCCN 2008037637
ISBN9780231130943 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0231130945 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780231504041 (e-book)
ISBN0231504047 (e-book)

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Joyner General Stacks E 183.8.C5 H175 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold