When America First Met China:
Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
Thursday 11 October, 2012
6:30pm, $0/Rsvp: 212-431-0233 x212
Tenement Museum
103 Orchard Street
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.