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Introduction

1. Xanadu: An Envoy at the Throne of a Monarch

2. Romantic Domesticity: A Chinese World Invented at Home

3. Pursuing the China Effect: A Country Described through Marketing

   China in Miniature: Nathan DunnŐs Chinese Museum

   A Floating Ethnology: The Strange Voyage of the Chinese Junk Keying

4. God's China: The Middle Kingdom of Samuel Wells Williams

5. The Cultural Fruits of Diplomacy: A Chinese Museum and Panorama

6. The Ugly Face of China: Bayard Taylor's Travels in Asia

7. Traditional China and Chinese Yankees: The Centennial Exposition of 1876

8. Conclusion

9. Bibliography