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Book New York and the China Trade

Download or read book New York and the China Trade written by David Sanctuary Howard and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To the Farthest Gulf

Download or read book To the Farthest Gulf written by Dorothy Schurman Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in the China trade flourished during the years after the publication of the Dulles book and the Hawes articles, and during the 1970's and '80's there appeared an outpouring of books, museum catalogs, and articles which culminated in the bicentennial observance of the Empress of China's voyage of 1784, with special exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery partially satisfying the appetite of collectors and scholars alike.-pg. ii.

Book The Old China Trade

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  • Author : Foster Rhea Dulles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1930
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Old China Trade written by Foster Rhea Dulles and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China Trade

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 19 pages

Download or read book China Trade written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Before Chinatown

Download or read book New York Before Chinatown written by John Kuo Wei Tchen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-09-21 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Piecing together various historical fragments and anecdotes from the years before Chinatown emerged in the late 1870s, historian John Kuo Wei Tchen redraws Manhattan's historical landscape and broadens our understanding of the role of port cultures in the making of American identities."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Trading Freedom

Download or read book Trading Freedom written by Dael A. Norwood and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: America's Business with China -- Founding a Free, Trading Republic -- The Paradox of a Pacific Policy -- Troubled Waters -- Sovereign Rights, or America's First Opium Problem -- The Empire's New Roads -- This Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century -- A Propped-Open Door -- Death of a Trade, Birth of a Market.

Book America s China Trade in Historical Perspective

Download or read book America s China Trade in Historical Perspective written by Ernest R. May and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1986 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores commercial relations between the United States and China from the eighteenth century until 1949, fleshing out with facts the romantic and shadowy image of "the China trade." These nine chapters by specialists in the field have developed from papers they presented at a conference supported by the national Committee on American-East Asian Relations. The work begins with an Introduction by John K. Fairbank, then moves on to analysis of the old China trade up to the American Civil War, centering on traditional Chinese exports of tea and silk. A second section deals with American imports into China--cotton textiles and textile-related goods, cigarettes, kerosene. Finally, the impact of the trade on both countries is assessed and the operations of American-owned and multinational companies in China are examined. For both the United States and China, the economic importance of the trade proves to have been less than the legend might suggest.

Book The World Turned Upside Down

Download or read book The World Turned Upside Down written by Clyde Prestowitz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China’s growing power poses and how it must be confrontedWhen China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, most experts expected the WTO rules and procedures would liberalize China and make it “a responsible stakeholder in the liberal world order.” But the experts made the wrong bet. China today is liberalizing neither economically nor politically but, if anything, becoming more authoritarian and mercantilist.In this book, notably free of partisan posturing and inflammatory rhetoric, renowned globalization and Asia expert Clyde Prestowitz describes the key challenges posed by China and the strategies America and the Free World must adopt to meet them. He argues that these must be more sophisticated and more comprehensive than a narrowly targeted trade war. Rather, he urges strategies that the U.S. and its allies can use unilaterally without contravening international or domestic law.

Book Imperial Twilight

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  • Author : Stephen R. Platt
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2018-05-15
  • ISBN : 0307961745
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Imperial Twilight written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.

Book The China Trade and Its Influence

Download or read book The China Trade and Its Influence written by New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ships and Shipping of Old New York

Download or read book Ships and Shipping of Old New York written by Bank of the Manhattan Company and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The China Mirage

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  • Author : James Bradley
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2015-04-21
  • ISBN : 0316196665
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book The China Mirage written by James Bradley and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --Christian Science Monitor James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano--who in the 1800s made their fortunes in the China opium trade. Meanwhile, American missionaries sought a myth: noble Chinese peasants eager to Westernize. The media propagated this mirage, and FDR believed that supporting Chiang Kai-shek would make China America's best friend in Asia. But Chiang was on his way out and when Mao Zedong instead came to power, Americans were shocked, wondering how we had "lost China." From the 1850s to the origins of the Vietnam War, Bradley reveals how American misconceptions about China have distorted our policies and led to the avoidable deaths of millions. The China Mirage dynamically explores the troubled history that still defines U.S.-Chinese relations today.

Book The China Trade Post bag of the Seth Low Family of Salem and New York  1829 1873

Download or read book The China Trade Post bag of the Seth Low Family of Salem and New York 1829 1873 written by Elma Loines and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seth Low (1782-1853) married Mary Porter (1786-1872) in 1807. They live d in Salem, Massachusetts. Their ancestry traces into Dorset, England on the Porter line and to Berwick, Scotland on the Allen line. Seth Low and his brothers operated a merchant shipping fleet between China and the United States.

Book The Old China Trade

Download or read book The Old China Trade written by Francis Ross Carpenter and published by New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. This book was released on 1976 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the trade between the United States and China, begun in 1784, which affected this country in many ways, including culturally, industrially, and territorially.

Book A Village with My Name

Download or read book A Village with My Name written by Scott Tong and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “immensely readable” journey through modern Chinese history told through the experiences of the author’s extended family (Christian Science Monitor). When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start the first full-time China bureau for “Marketplace,” the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the US. But for Tong the move became much more: an opportunity to reconnect with members of his extended family who’d remained there after his parents fled the communists six decades prior. Uncovering their stories gave him a new way to understand modern China’s defining moments and its long, interrupted quest to go global. A Village with My Name offers a unique perspective on China’s transitions through the eyes of regular people who witnessed such epochal events as the toppling of the Qing monarchy, Japan’s occupation during WWII, exile of political prisoners to forced labor camps, mass death and famine during the Great Leap Forward, market reforms under Deng Xiaoping, and the dawn of the One Child Policy. Tong focuses on five members of his family, who each offer a specific window on a changing country: a rare American-educated girl born in the closing days of the Qing Dynasty, a pioneer exchange student, a toddler abandoned in wartime who later rides the wave of China’s global export boom, a young professional climbing the ladder at a multinational company, and an orphan (the author’s daughter) adopted in the middle of a baby-selling scandal fueled by foreign money. Through their stories, Tong shows us China anew, visiting former prison labor camps on the Tibetan plateau and rural outposts along the Yangtze, exploring the Shanghai of the 1930s, and touring factories across the mainland—providing a compelling and deeply personal take on how China became what it is today. “Vivid and readable . . . The book’s focus on ordinary people makes it refreshingly accessible.” —Financial Times “Tong tells his story with humor, a little snark, [and] lots of love . . . Highly recommended, especially for those interested in Chinese history and family journeys.” —Library Journal (starred review)

Book China

    Book Details:
  • Author : Guaranty Trust Company of New York
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book China written by Guaranty Trust Company of New York and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early American China Trade

Download or read book The Early American China Trade written by James W. Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: