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The China Trade Era

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The Portuguese came to Guangzhou to establish trade relations as early as 1513.  By the time other Europeans arrived, the Portuguese had a foothold in Macau and official escort duties up the Pearl River.  The English and the Dutch established state-sponsored East Indies Companies in 1600 and 1602 respectively.  The Anglo-Americans, while well aware of the significance and details of the East Indies trades, only established trade relations in China following independence from Britain—immediately following.  The essays in this connection explore different topics related to the U.S. early republic's "Old China Trade" (1784-1842).


 

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  1. Asia-Pacific in the Making of the Americas: Toward a Global History Caroline Frank
  2. Gallery Andrea Ledesma

Contents of this path:

  1. Tea, Sovereignty, and an East Indies Trade for a New American Empire
  2. Chinese Punishment in Export Art
  3. "I Have Made Four Voyages to Canton:" Benjamin Bowen Carter, Chinese Bibliophile
  4. About Benjamin Bowen Carter’s Xiuxiang hongmao fanzi (Illustrations of the Writing Methods of the Red-haired People)
  5. Samuel Wells Williams

Contents of this tag:

  1. "Liberty Triumphant", 1774
  2. Third Heading(1)
  3. Mandarin costumes, 1820
  4. Rensselaer Institute building, 1834-41
  5. Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University
  6. Explanations
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Mess Carter
  9. Terms
  10. Export Goods
  11. Manuscript
  12. Detail of Chinese punch bowls, Greenwood
  13. Goods
  14. Various Goods
  15. Transliterations
  16. Poem(1)
  17. Canton Factories, 1807
  18. Second Heading
  19. Tax Regulations
  20. Structure
  21. Third Heading(2)
  22. English and Latin Explanations
  23. Drawing
  24. Trading Activities
  25. Printing press in China
  26. Heading
  27. List
  28. Author's Note
  29. Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught, 1774
  30. Bloody Massacre
  31. "Crucifixion" Punishment Watercolor, Early 1800s
  32. Treaty of Nanking, 1842
  33. Benjamin Bowen Carter
  34. Beating the posteriors
  35. "Beating" Punishment Watercolor, Early 1800s
  36. Chinese scroll, c. 1750
  37. Taste in High Life
  38. A treatise on tobacco, tea, coffee, and chocolate : ... the whole illustrated with copper plates, exhibiting the tea utensils of the Chinese and Persians
  39. "Barrel" Punishment Watercolor, early 1800s
  40. "Head Display" Punishment Watercolor, Early 1800s
  41. Portrait of Samuel Wells Williams
  42. Old China Street, Canton, 1850s
  43. "Bisection" Punishment Watercolor, Early 1800s
  44. Wing Tai Hing, Buddhist Hell Painting
  45. Edenton Ladies Tea Party, 1775
  46. Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor
  47. Chinese Sentencing, 1848
  48. Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam, 1755
  49. Essay on Tea
  50. Williams English-Chinese Vocabulary, 1844
  51. Marriage A-la-Mode
  52. Mariage chinois, 1742, by Francois Boucher
  53. Canton Waterfront
  54. Williams description of suburbs & streets of Canton
  55. Opium as "Article of Import", 1834
  56. Middle Kingdom Frontispiece
  57. New England Courant
  58. Tea Caddy
  59. 18th-century Porcelain in Colonial Inventories (data gathered by author)

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