Public Lecture: Opium Trade and the Opium Wars

Please join me for a talk on the Opium Trade and the Opium Wars at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site (www.nps.gov/sama), followed by a book signing for True Yankees.

Free and open to the public
Thursday 19th January 2017
7:00pm

CONFERENCE Salem Sails to Canton: From the Old China Trade to the New US-China Relations

 Salem and Guangzhou (Canton) have maintained over two hundred years of friendship through trade and friendly exchanges. After the first U.S. voyage of the "Empress of China" in 1784, many Americans were attracted by the success of this inaugural trip to the orient. In 1786, Salem dispatched its first ship, the “Grand Turk,” to China carrying many local products. It traveled to Guangzhou (Canton) and Hong Kong and became the first Salem ship to reach the Far East, thereby opening Salem’s long history of trading with China, especially Guangzhou (Canton).

On July 28 and July 29, Salem State University and Guangzhou University will jointly host a conference on the theme of “Salem Sails to Canton: From the Old China Trade to the New U.S.-China Relations. This two day conference will be held at Salem State University and will include scholars from Salem State University and Guangzhou University as well as from the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts Historical Society, University of Freiburg in Germany, Jinan University, and Guangzhou Oriental Museum. Conference topics will cover both the history of the China trade and the current relationship between China and the United States. For a detailed program itinerary click here.

Conference Details:

Monday, July 28 – Tuesday, July 29

Marsh Conference Center (210 Marsh Hall)

71 Loring Avenue

Salem, Massachusetts

Registration fee: $25, includes all program sessions and lunch both days.  Register Here.

  

•   Download Program Itinerary

•   Online Registration

  

                

Monday, July 28, 2014, 9:00 AM
Marsh Conference Center

Contact Professor Li Li or li.li@salemstate.edu

George Chinnery Comments on His Sketchbooks to James Matheson, 1838

An intriguing tidbit penned by George Chinnery in a letter to James Matheson, of China traders, Jardine & Matheson.

Courtesy, British Museum

'But you know what my Sketch Books are -- all full - but many in each volume, with the embryo of design -- many filled in partially -- and many in their completed state of pen and sepia ... it will be the Sketch Book of a Painter and some 50 years hence may be interesting -- here and there I'll leave one in an unfinished state that G.C. may be seen more clearly, when it may come under the eye of a brother of the pencil.' (George Chinnery to James Matheson, 1 Dec. 1838)

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