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The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876

 

  

Introduction
1. Xanadu
2. Romantic Domesticity
3. The China Effect
4. China in Miniature
5. Floating Ethnology
6. God's China
7. Fruits of Diplomacy
8. Bayard Taylor's Asia
9. Exposition of 1876
Conclusion
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