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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The Chinese were known to be very stingy with their knowledge and goods, so the British began importing enormous quantities of Chinese tea to satisfy and stimulate its new factory worker class. The constant importation of Chinese tea drained the coffers of many European nations.
#2 The Chinese had a very strict system of trade with foreign nations, and it was difficult for the British to comply with. In 1793, King George III of England sent emissaries to Beijing with impertinent demands. The emperor refused to cede a piece of land or allow peer-to-peer diplomatic relations.
#3 The British were also involved in the opium trade, and they would often bribe Chinese officials to make it possible. The Chinese emperor had outlawed opium, but the British were able to exploit coves and islands along China’s rocky coast to open up more areas for their illegal trade.
#4 The first successful American round-trip trade voyage to China was conducted by Robert Morris in 1784. Morris sold Chinese tea in America, and the proceeds were used to buy Turkish opium and sell it back to the Chinese. This generated a huge profit for the American sea merchants.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	06 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669380634
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Chinese were known to be very stingy with their knowledge and goods, so the British began importing enormous quantities of Chinese tea to satisfy and stimulate its new factory worker class. The constant importation of Chinese tea drained the coffers of many European nations.

#2

The Chinese had a very strict system of trade with foreign nations, and it was difficult for the British to comply with. In 1793, King George III of England sent emissaries to Beijing with impertinent demands. The emperor refused to cede a piece of land or allow peer-to-peer diplomatic relations.

#3

The British were also involved in the opium trade, and they would often bribe Chinese officials to make it possible. The Chinese emperor had outlawed opium, but the British were able to exploit coves and islands along China’s rocky coast to open up more areas for their illegal trade.

#4

The first successful American round-trip trade voyage to China was conducted by Robert Morris in 1784. Morris sold Chinese tea in America, and the proceeds were used to buy Turkish opium and sell it back to the Chinese. This generated a huge profit for the American sea merchants.

#5

The Russell and Company warehouse, a compact three-story building housing about a dozen partners, functioned as a storeroom, a church, and a place of business. The lower floor held the merchandise, kitchen, and servants’ quarters. The upper floors held the offices, dining room, and traders’ personal quarters.

#6

The Chinese were extremely upset by the amount of opium being brought into their country, and the effects it was having on their population. They believed that the opium trade was corrupting their officials, demoralizing their people, and draining their wealth.

#7

The Chinese government, led by Governor Lin Zexu, had begun to crack down on the sale and use of opium in 1839. In response, the sea barbarians surrendered their valuable opium. Then, in front of cheering Chinese, they had three enormous trenches dug and filled them with the seized opium.

#8

The First Opium War was a boom time for Delano. English traders were forced to observe the British blockade of China, yet valuable cargoes from other sources continued to arrive.

#9

Delano had spent a decade in the China trade by 1843. He had seen Westerners transform themselves from supplicants to victors who dictated terms. He decided to return to Massachusetts for a short vacation.

#10

After the Treaty of Wangxia, which allowed five New Chinas where Americans could rule supreme, relations between the United States and China were completely changed. The Chinese had declared the opium trade illegal, but Americans in their New Chinas could not be tried by Chinese courts.

#11

The opium trade was the seed money for the economic revolution in America. The Delano family, who had pioneered the transport of Turkish opium to China, built Boston’s Athenaeum, the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Perkins Institution for the Blind.

#12

Delano was 48 years old when he returned to the most profitable business in the world: opium smuggling. He had eight children by then, and his wife was pregnant with a ninth. He gave an empty stamp book to five-year-old Sara and promised her that he would send her letters and stamps.

#13

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a young boy, his mother’s favorite stories from her own childhood were about an adventure in a faraway land. She told him how her mother, Catherine, had packed up Algonac and sailed out of New York Harbor on a fully crewed ship with nine children, two maids, and a piano.

#14

Sara Delano’s two years in Hong Kong were very pleasant, but she never learned the Chinese language or experienced China first hand. She told her son stories about the peacocks on the Rose Hill estate and Thanksgiving dinners, but she passed on no insights about the real China.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The stories that were told by returning East Coast sea merchants about the heathen Chinese inflamed the hearts of Protestant church leaders. These leaders then sent these exaggerated accounts back to America, which led to the perception of a corrupt, collapsing nation.

#2

The American modification of China was vastly ambitious and would be profitable. The Chinese were to be exposed to Christian values, and the American missionaries focused on the next Chinese generation.

#3

The Chinese were extremely confused by the American missionaries who came to save them from damnation. The simple Chinese peasant understood that it was American military might that had brought both American-supplied opium and American missionaries to China.

#4

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first gate the United States created to keep nonwhites out. However, in the early nineteenth century, merchants and missionaries had created the impression that Chinese men and women were laughably inefficient, lazy drug addicts who would be better off in a Christianized and Americanized New China.

#5

The Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad withstood racial slurs from white workers, and when they started working in mines, farms, and hotels, they often produced items of higher quality and at lower prices than their American competitors.

#6

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a racist law that allowed vigilantes to take things into their own hands and solve the Chinese problem.

#7

After the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, the West was cleansed of all Chinese people. The majority of Americans were now cut off from these people of the world’s most populous country, and unable to form direct relationships with them.

#8

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s father, James, was a loving but relatively elderly father, who died when Franklin was just eighteen years old. His mother, Sara, was a vigorous young mother who made him her mission. She dominated his early years, even home-schooling him.

#9

FDR had a close physical resemblance to his uncle Warren, which pleased him greatly. His uncle’s legacy was much more than just financial. It became the foundation of FDR’s understanding of China.

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