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

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47348] Title Information:	the commercial cultures of early US-China relations
[NT 47354] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	JohnsonKendall, 1969-
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Project Muse
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	Hong Kong [China]
[NT 47263] Published:	Hong Kong University Press;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	c2012
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource (xi, 234 p.)ill. :
[NT 47298] Series:	Global connections
[NT 47266] Subject:	China - Commerce - United States - 19th century -
[NT 47266] Subject:	United States - Commerce - China - 19th century -
[NT 47266] Subject:	China - Commerce - United States - 18th century -
[NT 47266] Subject:	United States - Commerce - China - 18th century -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789888053902/
[NT 47265] Notes:	Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
[NT 51398] Summary:	The twelve essays in this collection focus on the first commercial encounters between an ancient China on the verge of systemic social transformations, and a fledgling United States, strugglingto assert itselfglobally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War with Great Britain. In early accounts of these encounters, commercial activity enabled cross-cultural curiosity, communication and even mutual respect butalso occasioned confrontation as ambitious traders in early American companies pursued lucrative opportunities, often embracing a British mode of imperialism in the clme of 'free trade' The book begins in the 1780s with the arrival in Canton of the very first Americanship The Empress of China and moves through the nineteenth century, with Caleb Cushing negotiating the Treaty of Wangxia (1844) in Macau after the First Opium War and, at the century's close, Secretary of State John Hay forging the Open Door Policy (1899). Because it is not possibleto consider Sino-American relations in a vacuum, the essays remain attuned to the contemporaneous involvement of competing European trading partners, especially the British, in Canton, Macao, and the general region of Pearl River Delta. All of the essays address the history of American-Chinese commerce to recover a prescient dialogue or scene of exchange that resonates in the current tensions and promises of world financial reform. The interdisciplinary essays anchor big ideas in the carefulanalysis of specific literary, diplomatic, and epistolary writings, and the collection as a whole develops a rich visual dimension to the historical record. The result is an engaging and qualitatively collaborative book that brings to life a fascinating story of antagonism and collaboration between two countries that followed very different paths on route to becoming economic superpowers of the early twenty first century
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9789888053902electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9789888083534hbk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	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 ofearly Sino-American commerce in the journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the first Americanconsul at Canton (1847) / Kendall Johnson -- 3. China of the American imagination : the influence of trade on US portrayals of China, 1820 to1850 / John R. Haddad -- 4. Russell and Company and the imperialism ofAnglo-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 -- 8To 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 andYedan Huang -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Narratives of free trade : the commercial cultures of early US-China relations
Narratives of free trade : the commercial cultures of early US-China relations / edited by Kendall Johnson - Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 234 p.) ; ill.. - (Global connections).
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 ofearly Sino-American commerce in the journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the first Americanconsul at Canton (1847) / Kendall Johnson -- 3. China of the American imagination : the influence of trade on US portrayals of China, 1820 to1850 / John R. Haddad -- 4. Russell and Company and the imperialism ofAnglo-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 -- 8To 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 andYedan Huang -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSEIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-229) and index.
ISBN 9789888053902ISBN 9789888083534

Johnson, Kendall

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