The Diplomacy of Nationalism: The Six Companies and China's Policy toward Exclusion

Contents

Contents Preface / ix Introduction / 1 1 A Meeting of Market Economies: The Arrival of the Gold Mountain Guests / 13 2 Continuity and Change: The Chinese Huiguan Tradition Crosses the Pacific, 1850s / 23 3 Toward a New Chinese Self-image: The Beginning of Modern Chinese Nationalism in California, 1860s / 38 4 Becoming the Chief Target: The Six Companies in the 1870s / 57 5 Setting the Tone and Format: The Six Companies as Spokesman, 1870–1878 / 78 6 “Superseding the Six Companies”: The Qing Legation, 1878–1890 / 98 7 “As Skilled in Dialectics”: The Qing Legation, 1890–1906 / 119 Conclusion / 139 Notes / 147 Bibliography / 191 Index / 207 ...