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America's First Adventure in China : Trade, Treaties, Opium, and Salvation / John R. Haddad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haddad, John Rogers.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missions, American--China--History--19th century.
- Missions, American.
- Opium trade--China--History--19th century.
- Opium trade.
- China--History--Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864.
- China.
- China--History--Opium War, 1840-1842.
- China--Commerce--United States--History--19th century.
- United States--Commerce--China--History--19th century.
- United States.
- China--Commerce--United States--History--18th century.
- United States--Commerce--China--History--18th century.
- China--Relations--United States.
- United States--Relations--China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1784, when Americans first voyaged to China, they confronted Chinese authorities who were unaware that the United States even existed. Nevertheless, a long, complicated, and fruitful trade relationship was born after American traders, missionaries, diplomats, and others sailed to China with lofty ambitions: to acquire fabulous wealth, convert China to Christianity, and even command a Chinese army.In America's First Adventure in China, John Haddad provides a colorful history of the evolving cultural exchange and interactions between these countries. He recounts how Americ
- Contents:
- First contact : the voyage of the empress of China
- System men : the rise of Perkins & Co.
- All for a cup of tea : finding goods for the Canton market
- Beachhead of God : the first wave of missionaries
- Rising on smoke : opium and identity in Canton
- Formal ties : the Caleb Cushing mission
- Centrifugal force : the spread of people, goods, capital, and ideas
- Heavenly war : Americans and the Taiping rebellion
- Cooperation : Burlingame and the reinvention of Sino-western relations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-273) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781299400931
- 1299400930
- 9781439906910
- 1439906912
- OCLC:
- 833765904
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