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Author Haddad, John Rogers.

Title The romance of China [electronic resource] : excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776 to 1876 / by John Rogers Haddad.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, 2007, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic edition.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
ACLS Gutenberg-e series
File Type Electronic text (HTML) and image data (JPG).
System Details Mode of access: Intranet.
Funding This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Note Caption title; description based on screen of 2007-11-11.
Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Subject China -- Relations -- United States.
United States -- Relations -- China.
United States -- Civilization -- Chinese influences.
China -- Description and travel.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
Added Title Excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776 to 1876
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 9780231504041 (E-Book)
Standard No. 2027/heb99005 hdl

 
    
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