The Chinese LadyPub Date : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0009
N. Davis
{"title":"Travel to Cuba and up the Mississippi River","authors":"N. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The great New York City fire of December 1835 wiped out the Carneses’ warehouses and their incentive to promote their Chinese goods. Afong Moy’s manager took her on an extensive and strenuous trip to Cuba and up the Mississippi River in 1836, exposing her to many cultures—Spanish, Native American, Creole, and French—as well as the pernicious effects of slavery, Indian removal, and nativism. Her appearance in New Orleans, highlighted in a broadside, presented both the exotic oriental woman and the royal Chinese lady. A poem to “The Chinese Lady—Miss Afong Moy” by antislavery advocate Rev. William Tappan after he saw her in Cincinnati indicated his hope that she might see the Christian “sparkles of the light” and discard her heathen beliefs.","PeriodicalId":411096,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Lady","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127587671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Chinese LadyPub Date : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0005
N. Davis
{"title":"Afong Moy Presents Chinese Objects for Personal Use","authors":"N. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"In New York and elsewhere, Afong Moy, with Atung’s assistance, presented Chinese objects such as toys, paper folders, firecrackers, fans, card cases, and shawls which the Carneses brought to America in great numbers. Information in this chapter defines how these goods moved from her stage to the wider market. Using as a foil Philip Hone’s two teenage children, who attended Afong Moy’s staging with him, the chapter investigates the sorts of Chinese objects younger Americans might purchase for their individual use. Afong Moy’s and Atung’s explanations of their application conveys aspects of Chinese cultural life. The chapter also explores the purpose and function of Chinese-made objects in everyday American life.","PeriodicalId":411096,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Lady","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116290022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Chinese LadyPub Date : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0006
N. Davis
{"title":"Afong Moy Presents Chinese Objects for the Home","authors":"N. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Near the time Afong Moy arrived in New York, the Hone family was planning a move to a new home. Though there is no evidence that they purchased the Carneses’ Chinese goods that they saw in Afong Moy’s salon for their new residence, Philip Hone and his wife Catharine, who attended the presentation, were potential customers for the objects displayed. These objects included household articles such as tea and sewing equipage (thread winders and tea caddies), rice paper paintings, blinds, matting, feather dusters, and fly whisks, as well as comestibles and drugs (rhubarb); most were objects that Afong Moy also used in China.","PeriodicalId":411096,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Lady","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121583912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Chinese LadyPub Date : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0007
N. Davis
{"title":"New York to Charleston","authors":"N. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"To accompany Afong Moy’s presentation of salable goods in New York City in 1834, the Carneses opened an adjoining public exhibition displaying ancient Chinese artifacts—the first such completely public presentation of Chinese objects in America. In the accompanying exhibition catalogue they featured an image of Afong Moy which greatly differed from that of the Risso and Browne lithograph. This exotic personification would follow her on her trips to Philadelphia, the President’s House in Washington, DC, Baltimore, and finally to Charleston where her bound feet were exposed to the public. Afong Moy’s fame quickly spread across the country. Those who could not see her in person learned of her through articles in children’s magazines, read about her in poems, or saw her image in the local newspaper.","PeriodicalId":411096,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Lady","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129676039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Chinese LadyPub Date : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0008
N. Davis
{"title":"Return to the North","authors":"N. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"As chapter 7 tells us, Afong Moy’s return to New York City in 1835 began her transition from a promoter of goods to that of spectacle herself. Her new manager, Henry Hannington, may have been responsible for that change. Such a transition exposed her to both the actions of moral reformers in New York and, later, the jibes of newspaper reporters in Boston. To publicize Afong Moy, her new manager joined her presentation with that of other performers in Salem, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut, and Albany, New York. The public’s exposure to Afong Moy and China affected and influenced American material culture.","PeriodicalId":411096,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Lady","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121836217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Chinese LadyPub Date : 2019-05-23DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190645236.003.0010
N. Davis
{"title":"Off Stage","authors":"N. Davis","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190645236.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190645236.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Returning to New York City in 1836, Afong Moy’s sales functions fully ended and her manager, Henry Hannington, employed her solely as an oriental object in his New York diorama and panorama entertainments. After the Panic of 1837, Hannington’s operations collapsed. Those who brought her to America, Nathaniel and Francis Carnes and Captain Benjamin Obear, appear to have abandoned her despite their promise of returning her to China. In 1838, as Chapter 9 relates, Afong Moy, without resources or financial support, entered a poorhouse in Monmouth, New Jersey. Yet, the public did not forget her. Rallying to her defense, newspapers across the nation ran articles decrying her treatment. Citizens forced her guardians to come forward and contribute to her support.","PeriodicalId":411096,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Lady","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122834336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Chinese LadyPub Date : 2019-05-23DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0011
N. Davis
{"title":"The Final Act","authors":"N. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"With the arrival in New York of the celebrated Chinese junk Keying in 1847, Afong Moy’s presence as a well-known Chinese spectacle was again in demand. Chapter 10 tells us that after an eight-year hiatus, P. T. Barnum, America’s preeminent promoter, engineered her return. Coupled with Tom Thumb, Barnum recounted their origin stories in a seven-page pamphlet and presented them together at his American Museum in 1848. In characteristic fashion, in 1850, Barnum supplanted one Chinese female spectacle with another, a supposed Chinese woman of a younger age named Pwan-ye-koo. She presented in Afong Moy’s place in America and later in England. Foreigner Jenny Lind’s arrival in late 1850 captivated the American public, and Afong Moy—first a billboard for Chinese goods and then an objectified oriental exotic—was completely forgotten.","PeriodicalId":411096,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Lady","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121109306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Chinese LadyPub Date : 2019-05-23DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0004
N. Davis
{"title":"The Curtain Rises","authors":"N. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190645236.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 identifies the role that the Carneses and Obears defined for Afong Moy as a hawker of their imported Chinese goods and as an exotic personage on the stage. This role development is illuminated by a lengthy diary description of her fall 1834 presentation in New York City by merchant Philip Hone, and by the accompanying lithographic view of the stage set by New York artists Risso and Browne. In New York, Atung, Afong Moy’s Chinese interpreter, joined the presentation. His theatrical presence enlivened the performance and gave visitors insights on Chinese life, on Afong Moy, and the objects that surrounded her.","PeriodicalId":411096,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Lady","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121718273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Chinese LadyPub Date : 2019-05-23DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190645236.003.0012
N. Davis
{"title":"Epilogue","authors":"N. Davis","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190645236.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190645236.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"The author uses the theory of parsimony to explain Afong Moy’s final years. The epilogue relays the changes occurring in the later nineteenth-century marketing, public perception, and use of “oriental” goods with the opening of Japan in 1854. The author considers the lives of other Asian immigrants such as Chang and Eng Bunker (called the Siamese Twins) and several known Chinese women who came after Afong Moy. The epilogue addresses the position of the Chinese immigrant in the nineteenth century with the passage of the 1884 Chinese Exclusion Act. A comparison of the “Made in China” goods of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries with those of the earlier trade provides an understanding of China’s place in the golden chain of global commerce.","PeriodicalId":411096,"journal":{"name":"The Chinese Lady","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127847603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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