When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail

Traces the history of the relationship between America and China back to its earliest days, when the United States traded with China for furs, opium and rare sea cucumbers, but left an ecological and human rights disaster that still reverberates today.

• | Author: Eric Jay Dolin
• | Publisher: Liveright
• | Publication Date: September 03, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 432 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0871406896
• | ISBN-13: 9780871406897