Old China Trade
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The Old China Trade was the early commerce between the Qing Empire and the United States under the Canton System, spanning from shortly after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 to the T
The Thirteen Factories, the area of Guangzhou to which China's Western trade was restricted from 1757 to 1842
The gardens of the American factory at Guangzhou c. 1845
Port of Salem, Massachusetts, 1770s
John N. A. Griswold House, built-in 1864 for an American China trade merchant in Newport, Rhode Island
Treaty of Wanghia
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The Treaty of Wanghia ; was the first of the unequal treaties imposed by the United States on the Qing dynasty. By the terms of the diplomatic agreement, the United States received the same privileges
Façade of the Kun Iam Temple, where the treaty was signed.