02486oam 2200493 450 991078997130332120170523091620.0988-220-927-0988-8053-90-6(OCoLC)814551431(MiFhGG)GVRLA07M(EXLCZ)99267000000015998120121023d2012 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrNarratives of free trade /edited by Kendall Johnson1st edition.Hong Kong Hong Kong University Pressc2012Hong Kong :Hong Kong University Press,2012.1 online resource (234 pages)Global connectionsDescription based upon print version of record.988-8083-53-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction - Revising First Impressions; 1 - Bookkeeping as a Window into Efficiencies of Early Modern Trade; 2 - A Question of Character; Plates 1.1-1.9; 3 - China of the American Imagination; 4 - Russell and Company and the Imperialism of Anglo-American Free Trade; 5 - Chopsticks or Cutlery?; Plates 2.1-; 6 - Representing Macao in 1837; 7 - The Face of Diplomacy in Nineteenth-Century China; 8 - To Make a Way; 9 - The Flow of the Traders' Goddess; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThrough engaging interdisciplinary analysis of commercial themes, this book interprets under-appreciated interactions between China and a very young United States in the first decades after the American Revolutionary War. With its attention to visual culture, Narratives of Free Trade yields a fresh interpretation of documents that are crucial to understanding the evolving relationship between two of the twenty-first century's superpowers.Global connections.Economic historyUnited StatesCommerceChinaHistory18th centuryChinaCommerceUnited StatesHistory18th centuryUnited StatesCommerceChinaHistory19th centuryChinaCommerceUnited StatesHistory19th centuryEconomic history.382.09Johnson KendallMiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910789971303321Narratives of free trade3836576UNINA