Narratives of free trade : the commercial cultures of early US-China relations /

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This collection of essays discusses the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of social transformation and a fledgling United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War with Great Britain.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnson, Kendall, 1969- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, Ã2012.
Ã2012
Colección:Global connections.
Temas:
1700-1899
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Commerce.
Auėnhandel
Kulturbeziehungen
United States > Commerce > China > History > 18th century.
China > Commerce > United States > History > 18th century.
United States > Commerce > China > History > 19th century.
China > Commerce > United States > History > 19th century.
China.
United States.
USA
China
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Bookkeeping as a window into efficiencies of early modern trade : Europeans, Americans and others in China compared, 1700-1842 / Paul A. Van Dyke
  • 2. A question of character : the romance of early Sino-American commerce in the journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the first American consul at Canton (1847) / Kendall Johnson
  • 3. China of the American imagination : the influence of trade on US portrayals of China, 1820 to 1850 / John R. Haddad
  • 4. Russell and Company and the imperialism of Anglo-American free trade / Sibing He
  • 5. Chopsticks or cutlery? : how Canton Hong merchants entertained foreign guests in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / May-bo Ching
  • 6. Representing Macao in 1837 : the unpublished peripatetic diary of Caroline Hyde Butler (Laing) / Rogerio Miguel Puga
  • 7. The face of diplomacy in nineteenth-century China : Qiying's portrait gifts / Yeewan Koon
  • 8. To make a way : telling a story of US-China union through the letters of Henry Adams and John Hay / Paul A. Bove
  • 9. The flow of the traders' goddess : Tianhou in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America / Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Yedan Huang
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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