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

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