Lecture with Eric Jay Dolin – China from China: Porcelain and Stories of Early American Trade

Explore the fascinating characters, adventures, and tales of early American and Chinese trade with award-winning history 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. 

Saturday, July 26, 1 – 2:30 pm
Members $5 • Non-members $10
RSVP to [email protected] or 860-443-2545 ext. 2129. Walk-ins welcome.

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Image: Book Cover for When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail, by Eric Jay Dolin