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

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