Before American trade with China became so fraught, the United States couldn't wait to get their hands on Chinese products. Tea. Porcelain. Silk. Spices. In the wake of the American Revolution, the ...

At the center of that nascent trade relationship in the late 1700s was a ship called the Empress of China, which set sail on the maiden US voyage to China from New York Harbor in 1784, not long ...

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 ...

"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 ...

GUANGZHOU, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The 240th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Empress of China, a U.S. merchant ship, was commemorated on Wednesday in Pazhou, located in the southern Chinese ...