{"product_id":"the-new-middle-kingdom-9781421422510","title":"The New Middle Kingdom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning a full century, from the post-Revolutionary War era to the Gilded Age, The New Middle Kingdom is a vivid look at the Far East through Western eyes, one that highlights the importance of China in antebellum US culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Middle Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003eis at its core an account of those who shaped the US’ early relationship with China. By examining these figures through their own works and their national context, Johnson crafts a remarkable argument about the intricacies of both the China trade, and, more challengingly, the roots of American empire to be found there.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e. . . in exploring, in so much depth and so persuasively, the “romance of free trade,” Johnson has prepared the way for further explorations of how different approaches to American political economy intersected with US-China relations, as well as provided a basis for interrogating why—and how—there could have been such ideological and narrative continuity amid such significant change in this complex relationship.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003ePrologue \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Characterizing the American China Trader: The Global Geography of Opium Traffic in Josiah Quincy's \u003ci\u003eThe Journals of Major Samuel Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e (1847) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Captain Amasa Delano, China Trader: Slavery, Sealskins, and Herman Melville's Dollar Signs of the Canton Trade \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Troubled Romance in Harriett Low's Picturesque Macao: Transnational Family Fortunes and the Rise of Russell \u0026amp; Company \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Sacred Fount of the ABCFM: Free Press, Free Trade, and Extraterritorial Printing in China 132\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Caleb Cushing's Print Trail of Legal Extraterritoriality: A Confederated Christendom of Commerce, from the Far East to the Far West \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Extraterritorial Burial and the Visual Aesthetics of Free-Trade Imperialism in Commodore Matthew Perry's \u003ci\u003eNarrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan\u003c\/i\u003e (1856) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Passages to India from the Newly United States: Revising \u003ci\u003eThe Middle Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e (1883) \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529534349655,"sku":"9781421422510","price":49.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421422510.jpg?v=1731875992","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-new-middle-kingdom-9781421422510","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}