[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.

Click here to read the article by James Carter.

Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.

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