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005			20240726105030.0
008			170320s2017 mdu ob 001 0 eng d
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT
020			_a9781421422527 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aHF3128 _b.N496 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aJohnson, Kendall, _d1969- _e1
245	1	0	_aThe new Middle Kingdom : _bChina and the early American romance of free trade / _cKendall A. Johnson.
260			_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	2		_a"In the imaginations of early Americans, the Middle Kingdom was the wealthiest empire in the world. Its geographical distance did not deter commercial aspirations--rather, it inspired them. Starting in the late eighteenth century, merchants from New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Salem, Newport, and elsewhere cast speculative lines to China. The resulting fortunes shaped the cultural foundation of the early republic and funded westward frontier expansion. In The New Middle Kingdom, Kendall A. Johnson argues that--for the merchant princes who speculated in the global Far East, as well as the missionaries and diplomats who followed them--Manifest Destiny spurred more than the coalescence of the fractious regions into the continental Far West. It also promised a golden gateway to the Pacific Ocean through which the nation would realize its historical destiny as the world's new Middle Kingdom of commerce. Examining the influential accounts of Westerners at the center of early US cultural development abroad, Johnson conceives a romance of free trade with China as a quest narrative of national accomplishment in a global marketplace. Drawing from a richly descriptive cross-cultural archive, the book presents key moments in early relations among the twenty-first century's superpowers through memoirs, biographies, epistolary journals, magazines, book reviews, fiction and poetry by Melville, Twain, Whitman, and others, travel narratives, and treaties, as well as maps and engraved illustrations. Paying close attention to figurative language, generic forms, and the social dynamics of print cultural production and circulation, Johnson shows how authors, editors, and printers appealed to multiple overlapping audiences in China, in the United States, and throughout the world. Spanning a full century, from the post-Revolutionary War era to the Gilded Age, The New Middle Kingdom is a vivid look at the Far East through Western eyes, one that highlights the importance of China in antebellum US culture"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: China and the American Romances of Free Trade -- _tCharacterizing the American China Trader : The Global Geography of Opium Traffic in Josiah Quincy's The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw (1847) -- _tCaptain Amasa Delano, Slavery, and Melville's Dollar Signs of the Canton Trade -- _tThe Troubled Romance in Harriett Low's Picturesque Macao : Transnational Family Fortunes and the Rise of Russell and Company -- _tThe Sacred Fount of the ABCFM : Free Press, Free Trade, and Extraterritorial Printing in China -- _tCaleb Cushing's Print Trail of Legal Extraterritoriality : A Confederated Christendom of Commerce, from the Far East to the Far West -- _tExtraterritorial Burial and the Visual Aesthetics of Free Trade Imperialism in Commodore Matthew Perry's Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan (1856-1857) -- _tPassages to India from the Newly United States : Revising The Middle Kingdom (1883).
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650		0	_aFree trade _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aMerchants _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aPrinting _xSocial aspects _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aFree trade _zUnited States _xHistory _vSources.
650		0	_aFree trade in literature.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1393608&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell