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Author:

Haddad, John Rogers.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xxii, 321 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Americans--History--China--History--19th century.
United States--Chinese influences.--Chinese influences.
United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
China--History--History--19th century.
China--History--Public opinion--History--19th century.
Public opinion--United States--History--19th century.
China--Description and travel.
China--In popular culture.
United States--Relations--China.
China--Relations--United States.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Gutenberg-e series.

ISBN:

0231504047 (e-book)
9780231504041 (e-book)
0231130945 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231130943 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)184821618

LCCN:

2008037637

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)