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America's first adventure in China : trade, treaties, opium, and salvation
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America's first adventure in China : trade, treaties, opium, and salvation / John R. Haddad.
ISBN
9781439906897 (cloth : alk. paper)
1439906890 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781439906910 (e-book)
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
viii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
First contact : the voyage of the Empress of China
System men : the rise of Perkins and Company
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.
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