Yankee Ships in China Seas
Author | : Daniel Henderson |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : China Sea |
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Author | : Daniel Henderson |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : China Sea |
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Author | : Daniel Henderson |
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Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : China Sea |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Art objects, Chinese |
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Author | : Newport |
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Release | : 1949 |
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Author | : Daniel Henderson |
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Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : China Sea |
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Author | : Pauline K. Weaver |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : China trade art |
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Author | : Dane A. Morrison |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2014-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421415437 |
“[A] fascinating perspective on how America’s early voyages of commerce and discovery to the exotic South Seas helped the new nation forge its identity.” —Eric Jay Dolan, bestselling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters Drawing on private journals, letters, ships’ logs, memoirs, and newspaper accounts, True Yankees traces America’s earliest encounters on a global stage through the exhilarating experiences of five Yankee seafarers. Merchant Samuel Shaw spent a decade scouring the marts of China and India for goods that would captivate the imaginations of his countrymen. Mariner Amasa Delano toured much of the Pacific hunting seals. Explorer Edmund Fanning circumnavigated the globe, touching at various Pacific and Indian Ocean ports of call. In 1829, twenty-year-old Harriett Low reluctantly accompanied her merchant uncle and ailing aunt to Macao, where she recorded trenchant observations of expatriate life. And sea captain Robert Bennet Forbes’s last sojourn in Canton coincided with the eruption of the First Opium War. How did these bold voyagers approach and do business with the people in the region, whose physical appearance, practices, and culture seemed so strange? And how did native men and women—not to mention the European traders who were in direct competition with the Americans—regard these upstarts who had fought off British rule? The accounts of these adventurous travelers reveal how they and hundreds of other mariners and expatriates influenced the ways in which Americans defined themselves, thereby creating a genuinely brash national character—the “true Yankee.” Readers who love history and stories of exploration on the high seas will devour this gripping tale. “The book is informative and entertaining, a rare combination. Highly recommended.” —Choice
Author | : Lee McGiffin |
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Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : China |
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Because of a Congressional cutback in appropriations in 1894 commissions were not available for several Annapolis graduates. This is the biography of one graduate who offered his services to China and performed several missions for them prior to the Boxer Rebellion.
Author | : Matthew Calbraith Perry |
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Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Japan |
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Author | : John Pomfret |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 2016-11-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1429944129 |
A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns—rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment—were set in motion hundreds of years earlier. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, memoirs, government documents, and contemporary news reports, John Pomfret reconstructs the surprising, tragic, and marvelous ways Americans and Chinese have engaged with one another through the centuries. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the most important—and often the most perplexing—relationship between any two countries in the world.