Narratives of Free Trade: The Commercial Cultures of Early US-China Relations ISBN: 9789888053902 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Hong Kong University Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: History;
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.