Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-321).
Contents:
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.
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