Narratives of free trade : the commercial cultures of early US-China relations /
Narratives of free trade : the commercial cultures of early US-China relations / Commercial cultures of early US-China relations edited by Kendall Johnson. - Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2012. - xi, 234 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm. - Global connections . - Global connections (Hong Kong University Press) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-229) and index.
Introduction. Revising first impressions : American stereotypes of China and the national romance of free trade / Kendall Johnson -- Bookkeeping as a window into efficiencies of early modern trade : Europeans, Americans and others in China compared, 1700-1842 / Paul A. Van Dyke -- 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 -- China of the American imagination : the influence of trade on US portrayals of China, 1820 to 1850 / John R. Haddad -- Russell and Company and the imperialism of Anglo-American free trade / Sibing He -- Chopsticks or cutlery? How Canton Hong merchants entertained foreign guests in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / May-bo Ching -- Representing Macao in 1837 : the unpublished peripatetic diary of Caroline Hyde Butler (Laing) / Rogério Miguel Puga -- The face of diplomacy in nineteenth-century China : Qiying's portrait gifts / Yeewan Koon -- To make a way : telling a story of US-China union through the letters of Henry Adams and John Hay / Paul A. Bové -- The flow of the traders' goddess : Tianhou in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America / Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Yedan Huang.
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2011449414
United States--Commerce--History--China--19th century.
China--Commerce--History--United States--19th century.
HF3128 / .N37 2012
382/.0973/051
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-229) and index.
Introduction. Revising first impressions : American stereotypes of China and the national romance of free trade / Kendall Johnson -- Bookkeeping as a window into efficiencies of early modern trade : Europeans, Americans and others in China compared, 1700-1842 / Paul A. Van Dyke -- 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 -- China of the American imagination : the influence of trade on US portrayals of China, 1820 to 1850 / John R. Haddad -- Russell and Company and the imperialism of Anglo-American free trade / Sibing He -- Chopsticks or cutlery? How Canton Hong merchants entertained foreign guests in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / May-bo Ching -- Representing Macao in 1837 : the unpublished peripatetic diary of Caroline Hyde Butler (Laing) / Rogério Miguel Puga -- The face of diplomacy in nineteenth-century China : Qiying's portrait gifts / Yeewan Koon -- To make a way : telling a story of US-China union through the letters of Henry Adams and John Hay / Paul A. Bové -- The flow of the traders' goddess : Tianhou in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America / Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Yedan Huang.
9789888083534 9888083538 9789888083541 (pbk.) 9888083546 (pbk.)
2011449414
United States--Commerce--History--China--19th century.
China--Commerce--History--United States--19th century.
HF3128 / .N37 2012
382/.0973/051