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Author/Creator:Haddad, John Rogers.
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Title:America's first adventure in China : trade, treaties, opium, and salvation / John R. Haddad.
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ISBN:9781439906897 (cloth : alk. paper)
1439906890 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781439906910 (e-book)
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Publication:Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.
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Physical Description:viii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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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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Subjects:Opium trade--China--History--19th century.
Missions, American--China--History--19th century.
United States--Relations--China.
China--Relations--United States.
United States--Commerce--China--History--18th century.
China--Commerce--United States--History--18th century.
United States--Commerce--China--History--19th century.
China--Commerce--United States--History--19th century.
China--History--Opium War, 1840-1842.
China--History--Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11387396