The romance of China excursions to Chi na in U.S. culture, 1776 to 1876 - Haddad, John Rogers; American Council of Learned Societies (New York : Columbia University Press, 2007)
1. Xanadu : an envoy at the throne of a monarch -- 2. Romantic domes ticity : a Chinese world invented at home -- 3. Pursuing the China effe ct : a country described through marketing -- 4. China in miniature : N athan Dunn's Chinese Museum -- 5. A floating ethnology : the strange vo yage of the Chinese Junk Keying -- 6. God's China : The Middle Kingdom of Samuel Wells Williams -- 7. The cultural fruits of diplomacy : a Chi nese museum and panorama -- 8. The ugly face of China: Bayard Taylor's travels in Asia -- 9. Traditional China and Chinese Yankees : the Cente nnial Exposition of 1876.
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Keywords: China -- Relations -- United States; United States -- Relations -- China; United States -- Civilization -- Chinese influences; China -- Description and travel