Chapter 2
The Manufacture of Porcelain in China, detail. Watercolor (1800-20), China. Winterthur Museum, Gift of Leo A. and Doris C. Hodroff. Example of Canton china. Asian Exports, Peabody Essex Museum. Example of willowware. Author’s personal collection. The emperor of China. Collection 111, box 13, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Library. Opium smoking. Asian Exports, Peabody Essex Museum. Tingqua, Packing of Tea, Guangzhou. Hong Kong Museum of Art Collection. “View of the Hongs at Canton with the City in the Background” Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade (Woodbridge Suffolk, U.K.: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1991), 182.
Chapter 3
From H. Wrightson, design book. Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Library. Afong Moy: The Chinese Lady. Print Archives, Museum of the City of New York. Trade Ornaments. Collection of Print Ornament Catalogues, Printed Book and Periodical Collection, Winterthur Library. Top: Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments Cast by L. Johnson (Philadelphia, 1844). Bottom: Advertisement for Ranken’s Tea Warehouse. Top: No. 1077, Printed Book and Periodical Collection, Winterthur Library. Bottom: Poulson’s Daily Advertiser (22 March 1839). Top: Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments Cast by L. Johnson (Philadelphia, 1844). Bottom: Advertisement for Charles and Sylvester Tea Dealers. Top: No. 1077, Printed Book and Periodical Collection, Winterthur Library. Bottom: DeSilver’s City Directory (Philadelphia, 1835). Joseph Stiner and Company (trade card). Warshaw Collection of Business Americana—Tea, Atchives Center, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution. Ar-Showe and Company (trade card). Warshaw Collection of Business Americana—Tea, Atchives Center, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (trade card). Bella C. Landauer Collection, Collection of the New-York Historical Society. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (trade card). Bella C. Landauer Collection, Collection of the New-York Historical Society. Great American Tea Company at 51 Vesey Street (poster). Bella C. Landauer Collection, Collection of the New-York Historical Society. J. C. Jenkins and Company (lithographic print). Library Company of Philadelphia. The Pekin Tea Company (lithographic print). Library Company of Philadelphia. Three tea crates. Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pa. Tea crate. Department of Asian Exports, Peabody Essex Museum. Top: Tea crate. Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pa. Top: Tea-store Chinese statues. From the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum. Top: Redding and Company (trade card). Warshaw Collection of Business Americana—Tea, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Chapter 4
Nathan Dunn, portrait by George Chinnery. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Joseph H. Gaskill, 1970. Layout of foreign factories, Canton. W. C. Hunter, The Fan Kwei at Canton before the Treaty Days, 1825–1844 (London: Kegan Paul, 1882), 25. Chinese temples and idols. William Langdon, Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection Now Exhibiting at St. George’s Place, Hyde Park Corner, London (London, 1842), 13. Literati. William Langdon, Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection Now Exhibiting at St. George’s Place, Hyde Park Corner, London (London, 1842), 22. Palanquin on street of Canton. William Langdon, Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection Now Exhibiting at St. George’s Place, Hyde Park Cornor, London (London, 1842), 42. Male mandarin nodding from Canton. Edward Carrington Collection, The Rhode Island Historical Society.
Chapter 5
“Portrait of Hesing.” A Description of the Royal Chinese Junk, “Keying” (London: J. Such, 1848). “The Keying” A Description of the Royal Chinese Junk, “Keying” (London: J. Such, 1848). “After Deck of the Keying” A Description of the Royal Chinese Junk, “Keying” (London: J. Such, 1848). “Saloon of the Keying” A Description of the Royal Chinese Junk, “Keying” (London: J. Such, 1848).
Chapter 6
Frontispiece to The Middle Kingdom (1848).
Chapter 7
“Temple Where the Treaty of Wanghia Was Signed.” Caleb Cushing Papers, oversized box 2, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Interior of the Chinese Museum. P. T. Barnum, Ten Thousand Things on China and the Chinese (New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850). View on Canton River Caleb Cushing Papers, oversized box 2, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Puntingqua’s Country Villa near Canton Caleb Cushing Papers, oversized box 2, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Chinese Blacksmiths Caleb Cushing Papers, oversized box 2, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Chinese Ploughing Caleb Cushing Papers, oversized box 2, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Irrigating Caleb Cushing Papers, oversized box 2, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Chinese Abacus Caleb Cushing Papers, oversized box 2, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Sampan Woman and Boat Caleb Cushing Papers, oversized box 2, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Chapter 9
“Our Centennial—President Grant and Dom Pedro Starting the Corliss Engine.” Harper’s Weekly (27 May 1876), 421. “The Chinese Pavilion—Unpacking China Wares.” Harper’s Weekly (13 May 1876), 384. A young Japanese visitor to the Centennial Exposition. Daily Graphic (29 May 1876). “Main Building—China.“ Centennial Photograph Collection, the Free Library of Philadelphia. “Main Building—China.“ Centennial Photograph Collection, the Free Library of Philadelphia. “The Centennial—Scene in the Chinese Department, Main Building.“ Harper’s Weekly (2 September 1876), 721. “The Mineral Annex—Chinese Department.“ Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exposition, 1876 (New York: Frank Leslie’s, 1877), 202. “Chinese Figures.“ Centennial Photograph Collection, the Free Library of Philadelphia. “The Chinese Court—Celestial Exhibitors Explaining their Wares.“ Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exposition 1876 (New York: Frank Leslie’s, 1877), 84. “A Celestial Vision: The Green Harvest Gathered in by the Heathen at the Centennial.“ Harper’s Weekly (16 September 1876), 761. Paul preaching to Asians. Harry French, Our Boys in China: The Thrilling Story of Two Young Americans, Scott and Paul Clayton Wrecked in the China Sea, on Their Return from India, with Their Strange Adventures in China (New York: Charles Dillingham, 1883), 29. “Visit of Chinese Students from Connecticut to the Centennial Exhibition.“ Daily Graphic (31 August 1876). The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 | 
