具体描述
Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships.
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. Two maps, and 16 pages of color and 83 black-and-white illustrations.
作者简介
Eric Jay Dolin is the author of the bestselling Leviathan: The History of Whaling In America, which was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Providence Journal, and was chosen by Amazon.com's editors as one of the top ten history books of 2007. Leviathan also won the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, and the 23rd Annual L. Byrne Waterman Award, given by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, for outstanding contributions to whaling research and history. His last book, Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America, was chosen by New West, The Seattle Times, and the Rocky Mountain Land Library as one of the best nonfiction books of 2010, and it also won the 2011 James P. Hanlan Book Award, given by the New England Historical Association. A graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in environmental policy, he lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.
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美国作为当今世界的第一强国，中国作为正在崛起的未来新星，两者的相遇必然会对国际社会产生巨大影响，探究二者历史轨迹上的第一个交点变成了一件非常有趣的事情。这本书用陈述的口吻，运用大量具象事物，生动地向读者呈现了美中两国最初的相遇场景，以及美中贸易在当时的发展...
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评分这是一本很别致的历史读物，它以讲故事的形式，从第一艘抵达中国广州的美国船说起，描绘了诸多中美关系历史趣闻。在书里，我们可以看到贸易竞争和武力斗争，看到华工的苦难和华工的贡献，看到中国皇帝、官员和美国总统、英国大员。可以说，本书是一幅中美关系的清明上河图。
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Brought me back to the age of sailings back to the 19th century. The author has a great view towards the history of Sino American trade. Love this book, definitely will recommend it to my friends.
评分Brought me back to the age of sailings back to the 19th century. The author has a great view towards the history of Sino American trade. Love this book, definitely will recommend it to my friends.
评分Brought me back to the age of sailings back to the 19th century. The author has a great view towards the history of Sino American trade. Love this book, definitely will recommend it to my friends.
评分Brought me back to the age of sailings back to the 19th century. The author has a great view towards the history of Sino American trade. Love this book, definitely will recommend it to my friends.
评分Brought me back to the age of sailings back to the 19th century. The author has a great view towards the history of Sino American trade. Love this book, definitely will recommend it to my friends.
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