LEADER 02942nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910461073403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a988-220-927-0 010 $a988-8053-90-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000159981 035 $a(EBL)877739 035 $a(OCoLC)779543884 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000615027 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386692 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000615027 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10605517 035 $a(PQKB)10173180 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084854 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC877739 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3812 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL877739 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10547282 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000159981 100 $a20110416d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNarratives of free trade$b[electronic resource] $ethe commercial cultures of early US-China relations /$fedited by Kendall Johnson 210 $aHong Kong $cHong Kong University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 225 1 $aGlobal connections 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a988-8083-53-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aThrough engaging interdisciplinary analysis of commercial themes, this book interprets under-appreciated interactions between China and a very young United States in the first decades after the American Revolutionary War. With its attention to visual culture, Narratives of Free Trade yields a fresh interpretation of documents that are crucial to understanding the evolving relationship between two of the twenty-first century's superpowers. 410 0$aGlobal connections. 606 $aEconomic history 607 $aUnited States$xCommerce$zChina$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aChina$xCommerce$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aUnited States$xCommerce$zChina$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aChina$xCommerce$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomic history. 676 $a382.09 701 $aJohnson$b Kendall L$01054282 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461073403321 996 $aNarratives of free trade$92486745 997 $aUNINA