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The romance of China : excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776-1876

Title
  1. The romance of China : excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776-1876 / John Rogers Haddad.
Published by
  1. New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
Author
  1. Haddad, John Rogers

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Description
  1. xxii, 321 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. United States > Intellectual life > 19th century
  2. United States > Civilization > Chinese influences
  3. China > Foreign public opinion, American > History > 19th century
  4. China > Relations > United States
  5. China > In popular culture
  6. China > Description and travel
  7. United States > Relations > China
  8. Americans > Travel > China > History > 19th century
  9. China > Civilization > Public opinion > History > 19th century
  10. Public opinion > United States > History > 19th century
Contents
  1. Xanadu : an envoy at the throne of a monarch -- Romantic domesticity : a Chinese world invented at home -- Pursuing the China effect : a country described through marketing -- China in miniature : Nathan Dunn's Chinese museum -- A floating ethnology : the strange voyage of the Chinese junk Keying -- God's China : the Middle Kingdom of Samuel Wells Williams -- The cultural fruits of diplomacy : Chinese museum and panorama -- The ugly face of China : Bayard Taylor's travels in Asia -- Traditional China and Chinese Yankees : the Centennial Exposition of 1876.
Call number
  1. JFE 09-1362
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-321).
Author
  1. Haddad, John Rogers.
Title
  1. The romance of China : excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776-1876 / John Rogers Haddad.
Imprint
  1. New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-321).
LCCN
  1. 2008037637
ISBN
  1. 9780231130943 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0231130945 (cloth : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JFE 09-1362
  2. *OLF 82-5145
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