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When America First Met China
Eric Jay Dolin
Liveright
September 2012
On Sale: September 10, 2012
416 pages ISBN: 0871404338 EAN: 9780871404336 Kindle: B007Q6XLZC Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
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 bêche-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.
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