The romance of China
Subtitle: excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776 to 1876
By: by John Rogers Haddad
Contributors: American Historical Association; Columbia University. Press
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Subjects: Relations; Civilization; Chinese influences; Description and travel
Other titles: Excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776 to 1876; Gutenberg-e.
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Table of contents: title: 1. Xanadu : an envoy at the throne of a monarch; title: 2. Romantic domesticity : a Chinese world invented at home; title: 3. Pursuing the China effect : a country described through marketing; title: 4. China in miniature : Nathan Dunn's Chinese Museum; title: 5. A floating ethnology : the strange voyage of the Chinese Junk Keying; title: 6. God's China : The Middle Kingdom of Samuel Wells Williams; title: 7. The cultural fruits of diplomacy : a Chinese museum and panorama; title: 8. The ugly face of China: Bayard Taylor's travels in Asia; title: 9. Traditional China and Chinese Yankees : the Centennial Exposition of 1876.