Narratives of Free Trade: The Commercial Cultures of Early US-China Relations

Edited by Kendall Johnson

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Paper, 272 pages, 37 illus.
ISBN: 978-988-808-354-1
$25.00

January, 2012
Cloth, 272 pages, 37 illus.
ISBN: 978-988-808-353-4
Hong Kong University Press
$50.00

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.

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• Economics & Finance

Series

• Global Connections (Hong Kong University Press)

About the Author

Kendall Johnson is director of the American Studies Programme and associate professor at The University of Hong Kong.

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