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.
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