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Asia-Pacific in the Making of the Americas: Toward a Global History
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The Spanish Pacific
The China Trade Era
19th-Century US Pacific
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by Andrea Ledesma
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Collection of all images, documents, and photos featured on this site.
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"Liberty Triumphant", 1774
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A satirical view of American and English merchants, and Patriots dressed as Native Americans, engraved by Henry Dawkins in Philadelphia in 1774. See the key for identities of the persons, objects and allegorical figures.
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Mandarin costumes, 1820
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Chinese watercolor album by Sunqua.
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Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University
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Portrait of Ezra Stiles, by Samuel King, 1770, before Stiles served at Yale. (Yale University Art Gallery) Behind Stiles we notice four history books necessary for a learned man, histories of the Old and New Testaments, Livy's history of Rome, and DuHald's History of China, thus ranking knowledge of China as foundational to a rising Western empire.
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Rensselaer Institute building, 1834-41
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Mansion constructed by Jacob Van der Heyden in 1794 contained a laboratory and study rooms, as well as a dormitory. Note the tranquil countryside, unlike Yale's busy seaport town of New Haven.
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Canton Factories, 1807
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Chinese milling about in front of the trade factories, with a few foreigners present. Artist Unknown
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Tax Regulations
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English and Latin Explanations
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Drawing
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Trading Activities
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Printing press in China
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An illustration of the printing of Rev. Robert Morrison Chinese Bible in Cecelia Lucy Brightwell's 1873 account of mission work in the East.
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Author's Note
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Export Goods
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Detail of Chinese punch bowls, Greenwood
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From Sea Captains Carousing In Surinam.
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Various Goods
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Beating the posteriors
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(打板子). Photograph, date unknown.
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"Beating" Punishment Watercolor, Early 1800s
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Punishment watercolor painting by an anonymous artist in a small booklet, of the type commonly sold to Westerners in the Foreign District of Canton.
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Chinese scroll, c. 1750
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Americans had long been exposed to pretty Chinese flowers on finely crafted commodities shipped to the West. Artist Japanese: Shin Nanpin, Chinese, 1682–after 1762. Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Taste in High Life
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William Hogarth, Taste in High Life
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A treatise on tobacco, tea, coffee, and chocolate : ... the whole illustrated with copper plates, exhibiting the tea utensils of the Chinese and Persians
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"Barrel" Punishment Watercolor, early 1800s
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Punishment watercolor painting by an anonymous artist in a small booklet, of the type commonly sold to Westerners in the Foreign District of Canton.
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Portrait of Samuel Wells Williams
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Photo taken before his death in 1884
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Old China Street, Canton, 1850s
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Hand colored lithograph by William Heine, 1857, based on his engraving in Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy , 1856. Note the small shopkeepers
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"Head Display" Punishment Watercolor, Early 1800s
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Punishment watercolor painting by an anonymous artist in a small booklet, of the type commonly sold to Westerners in the Foreign District of Canton.
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"Bisection" Punishment Watercolor, Early 1800s
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Punishment watercolor painting by an anonymous artist in a small booklet, of the type commonly sold to Westerners in the Foreign District of Canton.
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Edenton Ladies Tea Party, 1775
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Possibly engraved by Philip Dawe, London. Print shows satire of American women from Edenton, North Carolina, pledging to boycott English tea in response to Continental Congress resolution in 1774 to boycott English goods.
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Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor
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Published in 1825. Hand-col. line-engr., unsigned (from book); men in Indian costume with hatchets advancing on ship moored at wharf and dropping chests overboard.
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Wing Tai Hing, Buddhist Hell Painting
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"This is a case of dearly beloved burglary in which the thiefs are breaking open the boxes, and stealing therefrom clothing and valuables to the amount of 300 shekels; while the Mrs. of the house is sleeping very comfortably in her bed dreaming of her man and her servant-girl squatting under it, dream of her chow. The burglars are punished in the hell by being forced to climb up the hill of swords and by wearing hand-cuff. In their re-appearance in this world they are again punished, one by wearing cangue or wooden collar, and the other by decapitation."
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Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught, 1774
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Prime Minister, Lord North, pours tea down the throat of America, a Native American whose legs are held down by Lord Sandwich while he looks up her skirt. America's arms are held down by Chief Justice Mansfield. The Boston Port Bill, an act to close Boston Harbor, fall out of Lord North's pocket. There are also Britain's rivals, Spain and France, while Britannia, holding the shield, covers her eyes in humiliation.
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Bloody Massacre
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The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Reg. Hand colored copper engraving by and after Revere. From the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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Treaty of Nanking, 1842
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Color engraving by John Burnet from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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"Crucifixion" Punishment Watercolor, Early 1800s
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Punishment watercolor painting by an anonymous artist in a small booklet, of the type commonly sold to Westerners in the Foreign District of Canton.
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Portrait painting by Francis Alexander, undated. Brown University Portrait Collection
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1856. Painted by Sunqua. Image courtesy of The India House Club, NY, NY
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Williams description of suburbs & streets of Canton
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Williams, Chinese Repository issue of August, 1833, p. 158
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Opium as "Article of Import", 1834
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An article in the Chinese Repository by editor Williams, 1834, p. 467
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Middle Kingdom Frontispiece
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First edition published 1848, New York & London: Wiley & Putnam
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New England Courant
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Tea Caddy
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Tea caddy with American armorial
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18th-century Porcelain in Colonial Inventories (data gathered by author)
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Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam, 1755
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By John Greenwood. A room of Rhode Island merchants getting drunk in the Dutch colony. Note all the Chinese porcelain punch bowls.
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Chinese Sentencing, 1848
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Illustration from The Middle Kingdom by Samuel Wells Williams, 1848, p. 505
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Essay on Tea
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Williams English-Chinese Vocabulary, 1844
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Williams used the Nanjing rather than Beijing dialect. He printed the book in the Macao office of the Chinese Repository, becoming the first American to publish a Chinese dictionary.
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Marriage A-la-Mode
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Painting by William Hogarth
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Mariage chinois, 1742, by Francois Boucher
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Boucher borrowed costumes, poses, and architectural details from Chinese woodblock prints, from a Turkish designer, and from Montanaus’s 1671 Atlas Chinesi, exaggerating tropical exoticism and opulence
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Writing Numbers
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heading “號寫數目定式” (Standard format of writing numbers). It explains the rules as: “凡寫數目者，壹至九皆寫一個，拾至百兩個，百數以上叁個，千至萬數者五個，逢號字不入數目之內。” (When writing numbers, only one word is used for numbers one to nine, two words for ten to one hundred, three words for one hundred or above, and five words for thousand to ten thousand, and the words explicitly indicating tens digit, hundreds digit, etc are not included in the numbers.) It is then followed by examples from “壹/1；貳/2……” to “壹千/1000；壹萬/10,000” and ends with the explanatory note “草法数目同上tso fǎ sho mǒ [counter] tong [along] xȧṅg” (the writing method of cursive scripts is the same as above). About the writing method, Chinese characters and Arabic numbers are all included from “壹” to “拾弍”. After that, only Chinese characters and transliterations are provided: “弍拾/yee；叁拾/sanme；肆拾/scue；伍拾/hunne；陸拾/louc；捌拾/patt；玖拾/cow；壹伯/yatt pauc；壹千/yat sceen；壹萬/shaup sceen”. The last part of this section bears the heading “以下年期月份名色 y hia nien ky yŭt fun ming shic [custom] ” (expressions of date and time are as follows). For months, only the Chinese and English terms such as “正月/January” are presented . For other terms, Cantonese transliterations and English explanations are included:一年 ye nien/one year；一日 ye yat/one day；一月 yue/one month；一時 shee/one hour；息閒 sic hien/minute (the author’s note: “閒” has the same meaning of “間”)；礼拜 lai pai/week；使頓 shit tun/Fxcs；壹箱 ye seaung/one chest；壹把 ye pa/one bunch；壹尺 ye chȧiu/one cubit；壹對 ye tȯë/one pair；壹斤 ye cun/one cattie；壹兩 ye lëȧnge/one twelve mace；壹錢 yĕ chien/one mace；壹厘 yĕ ly/one cash；弍分 lh fun {fuèn}/two Cents；壹疋 ye pǎt/1ps；疋字 pat [piece] tsu [charact] /ps；壹箱 ye sȧu̇ng/chest, one box；這壹箱 che ye saung/this one box, one chest；法士口薩 fǎ su sat/First sort；昔斤口薩 se cun sort/Second sort；口撻薩 tart sort/third sort
