Author Haddad, John Rogers.

Title The romance of China [electronic resource] : excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776 to 1876 / by John Rogers Haddad.

Imprint [New York] : Columbia University Press, [2006?]
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 1. Xanadu : an envoy at the throne of a monarch -- 2. Romantic domesticity : a Chinese world invented at home -- 3. Pursuing the China effect : a country described through marketing -- 4. China in miniature : Nathan Dunn's Chinese Museum -- 5. A floating ethnology : the strange voyage of the Chinese Junk Keying -- 6. God's China : The Middle Kingdom of Samuel Wells Williams -- 7. The cultural fruits of diplomacy : a Chinese museum and panorama -- 8. The ugly face of China: Bayard Taylor's travels in Asia -- 9. Traditional China and Chinese Yankees : the Centennial Exposition of 1876.
Subject(s) China -- Relations.
United States -- Relations -- China.
United States -- Civilization -- Chinese influences.
China -- Description and travel.
Alternate Author American Historical Association.
Columbia University. Press.
Alternate Title Excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776 to 1876