Aldridge, A. Owen. <br/><br/>
The dragon and the eagle: the presence of China in the American enlightenment/ 
A. Owen Aldridge 
 - Detroit:  Wayne State University Press,  1993. 
 - 287p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Preface (starting p. 7) --<br/>Acknowledgments (starting p. 11) --<br/>1 The Pre-American Background (starting p. 13) --<br/>2 Confucius and Chinese Religion (starting p. 23) --<br/>3 Lafitau and that Precious Root: Ginseng (starting p. 47) --<br/>4 Chinese Precursors of a Franklin Myth (starting p. 66) --<br/>5 Franklin's "Letter from China" (starting p. 75) --<br/>6 Franklin, Paine, and Jefferson (starting p. 85) --<br/>7 The China Trade (starting p. 98) --<br/>8 Traders and Mariners (starting p. 120) --<br/>9 The Emperor and the Plough (starting p. 144) --<br/>10 The Embassy of Van Braam Houckgeest (starting p. 161) --<br/>11 The Premises of Proclus (starting p. 182) --<br/>12 The American Marco Polo: The Magnum Opus of Robert Waln, Jr. (starting p. 192) --<br/>13 The Relevant Writings of Robert Waln, Jr. (starting p. 211) --<br/>14 An American Travel Liar (starting p. 236) --<br/>15 Timid Exoticism: Or China of the Imagination (starting p. 244) --<br/>16 Conclusions and Conjectures (starting p. 264) --<br/>Appendix: American Imprints Concerning China Before 1826 (starting p. 269) --<br/>Bibliography (starting p. 273) --<br/>Index (starting p. 281) 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>081432455X  9780814324554 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>United States<br/>China<br/>Civilization--Chinese influences<br/>Intellectual life<br/>International relations
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.48273051  / ALD/T