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“Chinese civilization and the United States : tea, ginseng, porcelain ware and silk in colonial America” (Publication, 2011)

Year

2011

Text

Wang, Dave. Chinese civilization and the United States : tea, ginseng, porcelain ware and silk in colonial America. In : Virginia review of Asian studies (2011).
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Publication

Contributors (1)

Wang, Dave  (um 2011) : Manager of Hollis Library, Adjunct Professor of St. Johns University, Queens New York

Mentioned People (1)

Franklin, Benjamin  (Boston 1706-1790 Philadelphia) : Staatsmann, Drucker, Verleger, Naturwissenschaftler, Erfinder, Naturphilosoph, Schriftsteller

Subjects

Literature : Occident : United States of America / References / Sources

Chronology Entries (5)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1739 Pennsylvania Gazette ; July 22 (1738).
Benjamin Franklin : "We have the pleasure of acquainting the World, that the famous Chinese or Tartarian Plant, called Ginseng, is now discovered in this Province."
2 1757-1772 George Washington sent orders for Chinese porcelain to Bristol and London. During this period he had bought Chinese porcelain from a famous Chinese dealer. Among Chinese porcelain ware, he had a special fondness for blue-and-white porcelain.
3 1773 Colonial patriots boarded three British ships in the harbor and dumped some 350 chests of Chinese tea into Boston Harbor. Their action was a protestation of taxation without representation and the monopoly granted the East India Company.
4 1784-1785 The 'Empress of China' becomes the first United States ship to trade with China. She left New York on February 22, 1784 and returned to New York on May 11, 1785. As soon as the Americans got rid of British control, they sent the ship 1785 to Guangzhou to bring tea back to North America. The ship was carrying a full loads of goods, 30 tons of ginseng. John Ledyard developed a plan to organize trade between the United States and China. Robert Morris, with other investors, underwrote the voyage of the ship. Ginseng became the main commercial good that the Americans could trade with the Chinese. The voyage had been a remarkable financial success.
5 1784-1793 Thomas Jefferson bought 1784 some Chinese porcelain in Paris. In 1785 he ordered more Chinnese porcelain wares. 1786 before leaving France, he acquired larger quantities of Chinese export porcelain in Paris. In 1789 he ordered Chinese porcelain from Edward Sowse, a Boston merchant engaging in Chinese trade. In 1793 Jefferson had transported all his Chinese porcelain to Monticello.