[The China Project] The ‘Empress of China’ and the beginning of U.S.-China trade[The China Project] The ‘Empress of China’ and the beginning of U.S.-China trade
[The China Project] The ‘Empress of China’ and the beginning of U.S.-China trade
On a wintry day in 1784, a schooner docked in New York set sail for Guangzhou. This journey halfway around the globe would take half a year; it marked the beginning of the largest trading relationship that the world has ever known.
