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The romance of China: excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776 to 1876

John Rogers Haddad 2007 © Columbia University Press
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  • 9780231504041 (ebook)
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  • American: 1789-1899
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Xanadu: An Envoy at the Throne of a Monarch
    • [Intro]
    • A Trip through China
    • The Forbidden City
    • Assembling a Chinese Collection
    • Constructing China in Pennsylvania
    • America's First Chinese Exhibit
    • Decadence and Demise
    • Conclusion
  • 2 Romantic Domesticity: A Chinese World Invented at Home
    • [Intro]
    • Chinese Export Porcelain
    • The Willow Pattern
    • Watercolors on Pith
    • The Real China?
    • Travelers Weigh In
    • Conclusion
  • 3 Pursuing the China Effect: A Country Described through Marketing
    • [Intro]
    • The Chinese Lady
    • The Tea Trade
    • Printed Advertisements
    • Tea-Store Displays
    • Human Displays in Tea Stores
    • The End of the Romantic Era
    • Conclusion
  • 4 China in Miniature: Nathan Dunn's Chinese Museum
    • [Intro]
    • The Gamble
    • An Idea Germinates
    • Collection Methodology
    • Building the Chinese Museum in Philadelphia
    • "A Panoramic Pageant of Oriental Life"
    • Learning through Objects
    • Responses to the Exhibit
    • The Exhibit in England
    • Conclusion
  • 5 A Floating Ethnology: The Strange Voyage of the Chinese Junk Keying
    • [Intro]
    • From China to New York
    • Early Reception in New York
    • China Downgraded
    • The Barnumization of China
    • A Scuffle, an Arrest, and a Date in Court
    • From New York to Boston to London
    • Conclusion
  • 6 God's China: The Middle Kingdom of Samuel Wells Williams
    • [Intro]
    • The Early Years
    • The China Mission
    • Pride: Internal and External
    • The Battering Ram of God
    • Heading Home
    • A New Mission in America
    • Converting Americans through Lectures
    • The Middle Kingdom
    • Religious Goals, Scientific Means
    • The Magic Bullet
    • Conclusion
  • 7 The Cultural Fruits of Diplomacy: A Chinese Museum and Panorama
    • [Intro]
    • Preparations
    • Cushing and Peters in China
    • The Chinese Museum
    • Responses to the Museum
    • "He is an enterprising fellow"
    • George West in China
    • The Chinese Panorama
    • Conclusion
  • 8 The Ugly Face of China: Bayard Taylor's Travels in Asia
    • [Intro]
    • An Instantaneous Ethnography
    • Touring China during the Taiping Rebellion
    • "I Am Carried from Place to Place in Triumph"
    • Japan and China Compared
    • Conclusion
  • 9 Traditional China and Chinese Yankees: The Centennial Exposition of 1876
    • [Intro]
    • Gathering, Transporting, Assembling
    • The Importance of Clothes
    • A Wall around China
    • Through the Gateway
    • The Mandarin and the Machine
    • The Exhibitors Become the Exhibits
    • Flirting with Boundaries
    • Chinese Yankees
    • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
    • Introduction
    • 1. Xanadu: An Envoy at the Throne of a Monarch
    • 2. Romantic Domesticity: A Chinese World Invented at Home
    • 3. Pursuing the China Effect: A Country Described through Marketing
    • 4. China in Miniature: Nathan Dunn's Chinese Museum
    • 5. A Floating Ethnology: The Strange Voyage of the ChineseJunk Keying
    • 6. God's China: The Middle Kingdom of Samuel Wells Williams
    • 7. The Cultural Fruits of Diplomacy: A Chinese Museum and Panorama
    • 8. The Ugly Face of China: Bayard Taylor's Travels in Asia
    • 9. Traditional China and Chinese Yankees: The Centennial Exposition of 1876
    • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
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Source: Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Library.

From H. Wrightson, design book.

  1. 1: From H. Wrightson, design book.

Source: Top: No. 1077, Printed Book and Periodical Collection, Winterthur Library. Bottom: DeSilver's City Directory (Philadelphia, 1835).

Top: Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments Cast by L. Johnson (Philadelphia, 1844). Bottom: Advertisement for Charles and Sylvester Tea Dealers.

  1. 5: Top: Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments Cast by L. Johnson (Philadelphia, 1844). Bottom: Advertisement for Charles and Sylvester Tea Dealers.

Source: Department of Asian Exports, Peabody Essex Museum.

Tea crate.

  1. 14: Tea crate.

Source: Winterthur Museum, Gift of Leo A. and Doris C. Hodroff.

The Manufacture of Porcelain in China, detail. Watercolor (1800-20), China.

  1. 1: The Manufacture of Porcelain in China, detail. Watercolor (1800-20), China.

Frontispiece to The Middle Kingdom (1848).

Frontispiece to The Middle Kingdom (1848).

  1. 1: Frontispiece to The Middle Kingdom (1848).

Source: Caleb Cushing Papers, oversized box 2, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

Chinese Ploughing

  1. 6: Chinese Ploughing

Source: A Description of the Royal Chinese Junk, "Keying" (London: J. Such, 1848).

"Portrait of Hesing."

  1. 1: "Portrait of Hesing."

Source: Collection of Print Ornament Catalogues, Printed Book and Periodical Collection, Winterthur Library.

Trade Ornaments.

  1. 3: Trade Ornaments.

Source: Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade (Woodbridge Suffolk, U.K.: Antique Collectors' Club, 1991), 182.

"View of the Hongs at Canton with the City in the Background"

  1. 7: "View of the Hongs at Canton with the City in the Background"

Source: Harper's Weekly (13 May 1876), 384.

"The Chinese Pavilion-Unpacking China Wares."

  1. 2: "The Chinese Pavilion-Unpacking China Wares."

Source: Asian Exports, Peabody Essex Museum.

Opium smoking.

  1. 5: Opium smoking.

Source: Print Archives, Museum of the City of New York.

Afong Moy: The Chinese Lady.

  1. 2: Afong Moy: The Chinese Lady.

Source: Harper's Weekly (16 September 1876), 761.

"A Celestial Vision: The Green Harvest Gathered in by the Heathen at the Centennial."

  1. 10: "A Celestial Vision: The Green Harvest Gathered in by the Heathen at the Centennial."

Source: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exposition 1876 (New York: Frank Leslie's, 1877), 84.

"The Chinese Court-Celestial Exhibitors Explaining their Wares."

  1. 9: "The Chinese Court-Celestial Exhibitors Explaining their Wares."

Source: Caleb Cushing Papers, oversized box 2, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

Puntingqua's Country Villa near Canton

  1. 4: Puntingqua's Country Villa near Canton

Source: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exposition, 1876 (New York: Frank Leslie's, 1877), 202.

"The Mineral Annex-Chinese Department."

  1. 7: "The Mineral Annex-Chinese Department."

Source: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana-Tea, Atchives Center, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Ar-Showe and Company (trade card).

  1. 7: Ar-Showe and Company (trade card).

Source: Collection 111, box 13, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Library.

The emperor of China.

  1. 4: The emperor of China.

Source: A Description of the Royal Chinese Junk, "Keying" (London: J. Such, 1848).

"The Keying"

  1. 2: "The Keying"

Source: Top: No. 1077, Printed Book and Periodical Collection, Winterthur Library. Bottom: Poulson's Daily Advertiser (22 March 1839).

Top: Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments Cast by L. Johnson (Philadelphia, 1844). Bottom: Advertisement for Ranken's Tea Warehouse.

  1. 4: Top: Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments Cast by L. Johnson (Philadelphia, 1844). Bottom: Advertisement for Ranken's Tea Warehouse.

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