LEADER 02486oam 2200493 450 001 9910817177403321 005 20170523091620.0 010 $a988-220-927-0 010 $a988-8053-90-6 035 $a(OCoLC)814551431 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRLA07M 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000159981 100 $a20121023d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNarratives of free trade /$fedited by Kendall Johnson 205 $a1st edition. 210 $aHong Kong $cHong Kong University Press$dc2012 210 1$aHong Kong :$cHong Kong University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (234 pages) 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$y19th century 615 0$aEconomic history. 676 $a382.09 702 $aJohnson$b Kendall 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817177403321 996 $aNarratives of free trade$94039229 997 $aUNINA