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When America First Met China (Eric Jay Dolin)
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Eric Jay Dolin's When America First Met China is a narrative history of the first sustained commercial encounters between the United States and China after the American Revolution. Set largely in the Age of Sail, the book follows merchants, sailors, diplomats, and Chinese hong traders as they built a Pacific-facing trade relationship long before formal modern diplomacy. Its central subjects are tea, porcelain, silk, furs, ginseng, silver, and opium, but Dolin uses these commodities to examine larger questions about ambition, cultural misunderstanding, maritime risk, and the uneven rules of global commerce. The book belongs to popular historical nonfiction, with a strong emphasis on maritime history and economic exchange rather than diplomatic theory alone. Its purpose is to show how early Americans entered the China trade, why Canton became so important, how profits and addiction reshaped policy, and how the earliest patterns of Sino-American contact still help explain later tensions between commercial opportunity and moral consequence.
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CSUNQI8?tag=9natree-20
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- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/B00CSUNQI8/
#Cantonsystem #Chinatrade #opiumsmuggling #AgeofSailcommerce #hongmerchants #WhenAmericaFirstMetChina
Eric Jay Dolin's When America First Met China is a narrative history of the first sustained commercial encounters between the United States and China after the American Revolution. Set largely in the Age of Sail, the book follows merchants, sailors, diplomats, and Chinese hong traders as they built a Pacific-facing trade relationship long before formal modern diplomacy. Its central subjects are tea, porcelain, silk, furs, ginseng, silver, and opium, but Dolin uses these commodities to examine larger questions about ambition, cultural misunderstanding, maritime risk, and the uneven rules of global commerce. The book belongs to popular historical nonfiction, with a strong emphasis on maritime history and economic exchange rather than diplomatic theory alone. Its purpose is to show how early Americans entered the China trade, why Canton became so important, how profits and addiction reshaped policy, and how the earliest patterns of Sino-American contact still help explain later tensions between commercial opportunity and moral consequence.
