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Narratives of Free Trade – The Commercial Cultures of Early US–China Relations

Kendall Johnson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hong Kong University Press

Published:1st Nov '11

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Through engaging interdisciplinary analysis of commercial themes, this book interprets under-appreciated interactions between China and a very young United States in the first decades after the American Revolutionary War. With its attention to visual culture, Narratives of Free Trade yields a fresh interpretation of documents that are crucial to understanding the evolving relationship between two of the twenty-first century's superpowers.

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 Profit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism By mobilizing new and old forms of analysis... and by putting scholars of the United States and China into conversation, the book opens up new vistas for exploration and expands a field that we can expect will continue to grow for some years to come. -- Dael Norwood H-Diplo

ISBN: 9789888083541

Dimensions: 226mm x 154mm x 17mm

Weight: 494g

272 pages