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Chapter
1
 

1
. Samuel Shaw and Josiah Quincy,
The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw
(Boston: Wm. Crosby and H. Nichols, 1847), 111–2.

 

2
. Shaw and Quincy,
Journals
, 155.

 

3
. Shaw and Quincy,
Journals
, 167–8.

 

4
. Shaw and Quincy,
Journals
, 168.

 

5
. Shaw and Quincy,
Journals
, 338.

 

6
. Shaw and Quincy,
Journals
, 180–1.

 

7
. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield,
Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son
(Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1786), 52.

 

8
. Shaw and Quincy,
Journals
, 182.

 

9
. Shaw and Quincy,
Journals
, 179.

 

10
. Shaw and Quincy,
Journals
, 179.

 

11
. William Hickey,
Memoirs of William Hickey
, 4 vols. (New York: Knopf, 1921), 1:224.

 

12
. Shaw and Quincy,
Journals
, 199–200.

 

13
.
Li Chi: Book of Rites
, trans. James Legge, 2 vols. (New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1967), 1:229.

 

14
. Jean-Baptiste Du Halde,
The General History of China
, 4 vols. (London: J. Watts, 1751), 2:201.

 

15
.
The Chinese Traveller
(London: E. and C. Dilly, 1772), 204.

 

16
.
Chinese Traveller
, 118.

 

17
.
Chinese Traveller
, 37–8.

 

18
. Du Halde,
General History
, 201.

 

19
. “Walks about the City of Canton,”
Chinese Repository
, May 1835, 43.

 

20
. Lawrence Waters Jenkins,
Bryant Parrott Tilden of Salem, at a Chinese Dinner Party
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944), 18–21.

 

21
. Eliza J. Gillett Bridgman,
The Pioneer of American Missions in China
(New York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1864), 43.

 

22
. Bridgman,
Pioneer
, 97.

 

23
. Edmund Roberts,
Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat
(New York: Harper, 1837), 151.

 

24
. Frederick Wells Williams,
The Life and Letters of Samuel Wells Williams
(New York: Putnam, 1889), 64.

 

25
. Williams,
Life and Letters
, 69.

 

26
. “Diet of the Chinese,”
Chinese Repository
, February 1835, 465.

 
Chapter
2
 

1
. Josiah Quincy,
Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams
(Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee, 1860), 341.

 

2
. Quincy,
Memoir
, 340.

 

3
. Claude M. Fuess,
The Life of Caleb Cushing
, 2 vols. (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1965) 1:414.

 

4
. William C. Hunter,
Bits of Old China
(London: K. Paul, Trench, 1885), 38–9.

 

5
. “Mr. F. Webster’s Lecture on China,”
American Penny Magazine
, November 15, 1845, 645–6.

 

6
. “Mr. Fletcher Webster’s Lectures,”
Niles’ National Register
, November 15, 1845, 170–1.

 

7
. Earl Swisher,
China’s Management of the American Barbarians
(New Haven, Conn.: Far Eastern, 1953), 160.

 

8
. Swisher,
China’s Management
, 174.

 

9
. John R. Peters, Jr.,
Miscellaneous Remarks upon the Government, History, Religions, Literature, Agriculture, Arts, Trades, Manners, and Customs of the Chinese
(Boston: John F. Trow, 1846), 162.

 

10
. “China,”
Wisconsin Herald
, December 11, 1845, 1.

 

11
. “Miscellaneous,”
Niles’ National Register
, November 1, 1845, 9–10.

 

12
. “Too Good,”
Sandusky (OH) Clarion
, May 24, 1845, 2.

 

13
. Mayers, William F., N. B. Dennys, and C. King,
The Treaty Ports of China and Japan
(London: Trübner, 1867), 397.

 

14
. Charles M. Dyce,
Personal Reminiscences of Thirty Years’ Residence in the Model Settlement Shanghai
(London: Chapman and Hall, 1906), 95.

 

15
. Arthur Ransome,
The Chinese Puzzle
(London: Allen and Unwin, 1927), 29.

 

16
. Samuel Wells Williams,
The Middle Kingdom
, 2 vols. (New York: Wiley, 1849), I:xv.

 

17
. Williams,
Middle Kingdom
, 1:3.

 

18
. Williams,
Middle Kingdom
, 2:47–8.

 

19
. Williams,
Middle Kingdom
, 2:50.

 

20
. Frederick Wells Williams,
Life and Letters
(New York: Putnam, 1889), 172.

 

21
. William Dean,
The China Mission
(New York: Sheldon, 1859), 271.

 

22
. Dean,
China Mission
, 7–8.

 

23
. Charles Taylor,
Five Years in China
(New York: Derby and Jackson, 1860), 133–4.

 
Chapter
3
 

1
. Arthur Waley,
Yuan Mei
(London: Allen and Unwin, 1956), 191.

 

2
. Waley,
Yuan Mei
, 53.

 

3
. Waley,
Yuan Mei
, 52.

 

4
. Waley,
Yuan Mei
, 196.

 

5
. Herbert A. Giles,
A History of Chinese Literature
(New York: F. Ungar, 1967), 410.

 

6
. Giles,
History
, 411.

 

7
. Giles,
History
, 412.

 

8
. Anne Birrell,
Chinese Mythology: An Introduction
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), 49.

 

9
.
Li Chi: Book of Rites
, trans. James Legge, 2 vols. (New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1967), 1:369.

 

10
. David, R. Knechtges, “A Literary Feast: Food in Early Chinese Literature,”
Journal of the American Oriental Society
106, no. 1 (January–March 1986): 53.

 

11
. Fung Yu-Lan and Derek Bodde, ed.,
A Short History of Chinese Philosophy
(New York: Macmillan, 1948), 289.

 

12
. Birrell,
Chinese Mythology
, 57.

 

13
. Dominique Hoizey and Marie-Joseph Hoizey,
A History of Chinese Medicine
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993), 28–9.

 

14
.
The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine
, trans. Ilza Veith (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), 206.

 

15
. Knechtges, “Literary Feast,” 49.

 

16
. H. T. Huang,
Fermentations and Food Science
, vol. 6, pt. 5 of
Science and Civilization in China
, ed. Joseph Needham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Presss, 2000), 68.

 

17
. Silvano Serventi and Françoise Sabban,
Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), 273–4.

 

18
. Jonathan Spence, “Ch’ing,” in
Food in Chinese Culture
, ed. K. C. Chang (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1977), 277.

 

19
. John Minford and Joseph Lau,
Classical Chinese Literature
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 223.

 

20
. Buwei Y. Chao,
How to Cook and Eat in Chinese
(New York: John Day, 1945), 35.

 

21
. Michael Freeman, “Sung,” in Chang,
Food in Chinese Culture
, 161.

 

22
. John Henry Gray,
China: A History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of the People
(London: Macmillan, 1878), 64.

 

23
. Gray,
China
, 72.

 
Chapter
4
 

1
. Samuel Bowles,
Our New West
(Hartford, Conn.: Hartford, 1869), 410.

 

2
. Bowles,
New West
, 411.

 

3
. “From California,”
Chicago Tribune
, September 28, 1865, 3.

 

4
. Albert D. Richardson,
Beyond the Mississippi
(Hartford, Conn.: American, 1867), 440.

 

5
. Bowles,
New West
, 412–3.

 

6
. “Restaurant Life in San Francisco,”
Overland Monthly
, November 1868, 471.

 

7
. Bayard Taylor,
Eldorado
(New York: Putnam: 1850), 116–7.

 

8
. John Frost,
History of the State of California
(Auburn, N.Y.: Derby and Miller, 1851), 100–101.

 

9
. William Kelly,
An Excursion to California
(London: Chapman and Hall, 1851), 244.

 

10
. William Shaw,
Golden Dreams and Waking Realities
(London: Smith, Elder, 1851), 42.

 

11
.
Notes on California and the Placers
(New York: H. Long, 1850), 100.

 

12
. “The Chinese,”
Weekly Alta California
, June 18, 1853, 4.

 

13
. Frank Soulé,
The Annals of San Francisco
(San Francisco: Appleton, 1855), 378.

 

14
. “Chinese Dinner and Bill of Fare,”
Charleston (SC) Mercury
, September 30, 1853, 2 (from the
San Francisco Whig
, August 16, 1853).

 

15
. Albert H. Smyth,
Bayard Taylor
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1896), 70.

 

16
. Bayard Taylor,
A Visit to India, China, and Japan, in the Year 1853
(New York: Putnam, 1855), 285.

 

17
. Taylor,
Visit
, 353–4.

 

18
. Frederick Whymper,
Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska
(London: J. Murray, 1868), 280.

 

19
. J. D. Borthwick,
Three Years in California
(Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1857), 75.

 

20
. Albert S. Evans,
 la California
(San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft, 1873), 320.

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