Lecture with award-winning history author Eric Jay Dolin

Explore the fascinating characters, adventures, and tales of early American and Chinese trade with acclaimed historian and author Eric Jay Dolin.

This talk derives from Dolin’s award-winning book “When America First Met China.” Dolin 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 that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China.

This event is held in conjunction with our current exhibition “China from China: Porcelain and Stories of Early American Trade.”

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