When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
October 11th, 2012 - 6:30 PM
Eric Jay Dolin provides insights into everything from pirates, the world-changing impact of the silk trade, the British-Chinese Opium War of the 1840s and the fearlessness (and naïveté) of the early missionaries to tales of adventure on the high seas.