America's first adventure in China : trade, treaties, opium, and salvation.

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In 1784, when Americans first voyaged to China, they confronted Chinese authorities who were unaware that the United States even existed. Nevertheless, a long, complicated, and fruitful trade relationship was born after American traders, missionaries, diplomats, and others sailed to China with lofty...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haddad, John Rogers (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2013.
Temas:
1700-1899
Opium trade > China > History > 19th century.
Missions, American > China > History > 19th century.
Opium > Commerce > Chine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Missions américaines > Chine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Commerce.
Missions, American.
Opium trade.
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.
Academic theses.
History.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; A Note on the Spelling of Chinese Words; Introduction; 1. First Contact: The Voyage of the 'Empress of China'; 2. System Men: The Rise of Perkins and Company; 3. All for a Cup of Tea: Finding Goods for the Canton Market; 4. Beachhead of God: The First Wave of Missionaries; 5. Rising on Smoke: Opium and Identity in Canton; 6. Formal Ties: The Caleb Cushing Mission; 7. Centrifugal Force: The Spread of People, Goods, Capital, and Ideas; 8. Heavenly War: Americans and the Taiping Rebellion; 9. Cooperation: Burlingame and the Reinvention of Sino-Western Relations.

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