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Author : Jean Gordon Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844 written by Jean Gordon Lee and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : JEAN GORDON LEE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book PHILADELPHIANS AND THE CHINA TRADE, ˜1784-1844œ (SEVENTEEN AND EIGHTY-FOUR TO EIGHTEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR). written by JEAN GORDON LEE and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Gordon Lee
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812211726
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844 written by Jean Gordon Lee and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Goldstein
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934223133
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (231 download)
Download or read book America Views China written by Jonathan Goldstein and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. historians present 16 essays on the American view of the Chinese from the 18th century to the present. Among the perspectives are art, commerce, missionary activity, diplomacy, popular culture, and a comparison with images of Japan. Includes a general bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Margaret C. S. Christman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Adventurous Pursuits written by Margaret C. S. Christman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Scott Latourette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Early Relations Between the United States and China, 1784-1844 written by Kenneth Scott Latourette and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 087140348X
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs, opium, and bêche-de-mer—a rare sea cucumber delicacy—might have catalyzed America’s emerging economy, but it also sparked an ecological and human rights catastrophe of such epic proportions that the reverberations can still be felt today. Peopled with fascinating characters—from the “Financier of the Revolution” Robert Morris to the Chinese emperor Qianlong, who considered foreigners inferior beings—this page-turning saga of pirates and politicians, coolies and concubines becomes a must-read for any fan of Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower or Mark Kurlansky’s Cod.
Author : Yong Liu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004155996
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Dutch East India Company's Tea Trade with China written by Yong Liu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study of the tea trade of the Dutch East India Company with China deals with the most profitable phase of the Dutch Company's China trade, focusing on the question why and how the tea trade was taken out of the hands of the High Government in Batavia and put under the supervision of the newly established China Committee in 1757. Various factors which contributed to the phenomenal rise of this trade and its sudden decline are dealt with in detail. Filling in lacunae left open by previous research and this monograph contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the VOC trade with Asia.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172838
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 13 written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Retirement Series documents Jefferson's written legacy between his return to private life on 4 March 1809 and his death on 4 July 1826. During this period Jefferson founded the University of Virginia and sold his extraordinary library to the nation, but his greatest legacy from these years is the astonishing depth and breadth of his correspondence with statesmen, inventors, scientists, philosophers, and ordinary citizens on topics spanning virtually every field of human endeavor.--From publisher description.
Author : Barbara Cantalupo
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271064285
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Poe and the Visual Arts written by Barbara Cantalupo and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Edgar Allan Poe is most often identified with stories of horror and fear, there is an unrecognized and even forgotten side to the writer. He was a self-declared lover of beauty who “from childhood’s hour . . . [had] not seen / As others saw.” Poe and the Visual Arts is the first comprehensive study of how Poe’s work relates to the visual culture of his time. It reveals his “deep worship of all beauty,” which resounded in his earliest writing and never entirely faded, despite the demands of his commercial writing career. Barbara Cantalupo examines the ways in which Poe integrated visual art into sketches, tales, and literary criticism, paying close attention to the sculptures and paintings he saw in books, magazines, and museums while living in Philadelphia and New York from 1838 until his death in 1849. She argues that Poe’s sensitivity to visual media gave his writing a distinctive “graphicality” and shows how, despite his association with the macabre, his enduring love of beauty and knowledge of the visual arts richly informed his corpus.
Author : David A. Taylor
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565124014
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
Download or read book Ginseng, the Divine Root written by David A. Taylor and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of "Nathaniel's Nutmeg and "Tulipomania comes the epic story of an ancient, elusive herb with legendary curative powers that have enticed and mystified us for centuries. Prized for centuries by Chinese emperors, Native American healers, and black market smugglers, ginseng launched the rise to power of China's last great and influential dynasty; inspired battles between France and England; precipitated America's first trade with China; fostered the study of comparative anthropology; was collected and traded by Daniel Boone; and has made and broken the fortunes of many. Today its healing properties are being studied for the treatment of diabetes, cancer, and Parkinson's disease. David Taylor takes readers from forests east of the Mississippi to the bustling streets of Hong Kong and deep into remote corners of China as he weaves together the history, culture, and intrigue surrounding the " Root of Life."
Author : Paul A. Van Dyke
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888083929
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Americans and Macao written by Paul A. Van Dyke and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this volume is the American relationship with Macao and its region through trade, politics and culture, and the focus is mainly on the late 18th and 19th centuries. The essays address topics such as the role of the China trade in US pacific expansion and exploration, US consuls, smuggling networks, missionary and educational work, and American women's perceptions of China. In all of the encounters, Macao emerges as a central player, adding a new dimension to our understanding of Sino-American relations.
Author : Frederic Delano Grant, Jr.
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004276564
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking written by Frederic Delano Grant, Jr. and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern bank insurance is traced to its roots in The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933. Frederic Delano Grant, Jr. provides new understandings of the Canton System, collective responsibility for debt at Canton, and the history of deposit insurance. The Canton Guaranty System inspired radical reform in New York in 1829 – the ancestor of all modern deposit insurance. Yet it was never the success imagined, and soon failed. In the Opium War, the Chinese government as implicit guarantor was forced to pay its debts in full on 23 July 1843. The afflictions of the Chinese system, including moral hazard, too big to fail, and unenforced laws, remain familiar today.
Author : Jacques M. Downs
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888139096
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)
Download or read book The Golden Ghetto written by Jacques M. Downs and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city’s most important foreign communities—the Americans—during the decades between the American Revolution of 1776 and the signing of the Sino-US Treaty of Wanghia in 1844. American merchants lived in isolation from Chinese society in sybaritic, albeit usually celibate luxury. Making use of exhaustive research, Downs provides an especially clear explanation of the Canton commercial setting generally and of the role of American merchants. Many of these men made fortunes and returned home to become important figures in the rapidly developing United States. The book devotes particular attention to the biographical details of the principal American traders, the leading American firms, and their operations in Canton and the United States. Opium smuggling receives especial emphasis, as does the important topic of early diplomatic relations between the United States and China. Since its first publication in 1997, The Golden Ghettohas been recognized as the leading work on Americans trading at Canton. Long out of print, this new edition makes this key work again available, both to scholars and a wider readership. “The fullest exposition on the subject thus far and as the final word on extant, previously untapped, English-language sources.” — Eileen Scully, in The China Quarterly
Author : Monica Chiu
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584657944
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Asian Americans in New England written by Monica Chiu and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first interdisciplinary contribution to studies about Asian Americans in New England
Author : William Watson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300107358
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Arts of China After 1620 written by William Watson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome book is the first in a major three-volume series that will survey China's immense wealth of art, architecture, and artefacts from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. The Arts of China to AD 900 investigates the beginnings of the traditions on which much of the art rests, moving from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to the era of the Tang Dynasty around AD 900.
