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

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