What's it like on the American Empress, the Columbia River paddle wheeler christened on Saturday? Our latest Cruise Ship Tour, in the carousel above, offers a deck-by-deck look at the vessel.

"China, China, China," rants Donald Trump, the presidential hopeful who loses no opportunity to blame America's economic woes on China and its "unfair" trade policies. But how did the fortunes of ...

It was the merchant ship Empress of China, bound for Canton (now Guangdong), China. At first, the American interest in China was economic. Americans were looking for new markets to buy goods ...

As Dolin tells Guy Raz, host of weekends on All Things Considered, it all started with a three-masted sailing ship called the Empress of China. Built in Boston, it was the first American ship to ...

The ship then proceeded to Canton to trade the ... ll hit their target without being dragged under. The merchantman Empress of China sets sail from New York for Canton with 30 tons of ginseng ...