China and the Founding of the United States: The Influence of Traditional Chinese Civilization by Dave Xueliang Wang (review)

Abstract

project, including mobility, neighborhood, and institution, or courses that are organized, as Klimasmith’s study is, by city. She provides instructors with an especially rich archive for a literary study of city-making in Philadelphia, including engravings by William Birch, correspondence surrounding the construction of Philadelphia’s public waterworks, and Charles Brockden Brown’s novel Ormond (1799). Urban Rehearsals is an invaluable resource for instructors making the case for the centrality of literary studies to this interdisciplinary field—a case we must make as educators as often as we do as scholars.