The romance of China : excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776 to 1876 / by John Rogers Haddad.
- Haddad, John Rogers
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- 2007, ©2006
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Also known as
Excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776 to 1876
Publication/Creation
New York : Columbia University Press, 2007, ©2006.
Edition
ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic edition.
Notes
Caption title; description based on screen of 2007-11-11.
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Contents
1. Xanadu : an envoy at the throne of a monarch -- 2. Romantic domesticity : a Chinese world invented at home -- 3. Pursuing the China effect : a country described through marketing -- 4. China in miniature : Nathan Dunn's Chinese Museum -- 5. A floating ethnology : the strange voyage of the Chinese Junk Keying -- 6. God's China : The Middle Kingdom of Samuel Wells Williams -- 7. The cultural fruits of diplomacy : a Chinese museum and panorama -- 8. The ugly face of China: Bayard Taylor's travels in Asia -- 9. Traditional China and Chinese Yankees : the Centennial Exposition of 1876.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references.
Funding information
This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.