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Brilliantly Illuminating One Of The Least-understood Areas Of American History, Best-selling Author Eric Jay Dolin Now Traces Our Fraught Relationship With China Back To Its Roots: The Unforgiving Nineteenth-century Seas That Separated A Brash, Rising Naval Power From A Battered Ancient Empire. It Is A Prescient Fable For Our Time, One That Surprisingly Continues To Shed Light On Our Modern Relationship With China. Indeed, The Furious Trade In Furs, Opium, And Beche-de-mer--a Rare Sea Cucumber Delicacy--might Have Catalyzed America's Emerging Economy, But It Also Sparked An Ecological And Human Rights Catastrophe Of Such Epic Proportions That The Reverberations Can Still Be Felt Today. Peopled With Fascinating Characters--from The Financier Of The Revolution Robert Morris To The Chinese Emperor Qianlong, Who Considered Foreigners Inferior Beings--this Page-turning Saga Of Pirates And Politicians, Coolies And Concubines Becomes A Must-read For Any Fan Of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower Or Mark Kurlansky's Cod. The Adventurous Pursuits Of Commerce -- The Middle Kingdom -- China Dreams -- The New People -- China Rush -- The Golden Ghetto -- China Through American Eyes -- The Opium War

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Author

Dolin, Eric Jay, author

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation; Liveright

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871404336

Category

history

Subjects

Business, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

3.82 / 5 (291 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13