Objectifying China, imagining America : Chinese commodities in early America /
Frank, Caroline.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : The University of Chicago Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beyond the Atlantic in Anglo-America -- The first American China trade -- American mariners in the Indian Ocean, 1690-1700 -- Imagining China at home -- Architectural Japanning in early Newport -- Islands of illicit refinement -- Bohia and Chaney for the northern plantations -- The oriental aesthetic in old Yankee households -- China in northern colonial homes -- Manly tea parties -- The idea of China in Boston's rebellion -- Epilogue: an East Indies trade for North America.