Narratives of Free Trade: The Commercial Cultures of Early US-China Relations
Posted: January 12th, 2012 | No Comments »Edited by Kendall Johnson
Global Connections series
“This is an important and necessary book emphasizing the early period of Sino-American interaction. Johnson and his authors reinterpret historical events through the lenses of narrative and literature, showing how the stories people tell about one another become the first drafts of history. This book will change historians’ understanding of Chinese- American relations.” — James Fichter, author of So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism
-Â The first in a new series by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, the University of Hong Kong.
– Discusses the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of social transformation and a fledgling United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War with Great Britain.
-Â Nine essays are attuned to the activities of competing European traders, especially the British, in Canton, Macao, and the Pearl River Delta.
Kendall Johnson is director of the American Studies Programme and associate professor at The University of Hong Kong.
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