The Empress, a 104-foot, three-mast ship was commanded by Captain John Green, 46, an imposing Irishman who was a veteran of the Revolutionary War against Great Britain and former prisoner of that war.

Moving the 2,020-passenger ship to “right size” the Pullmantur fleet reflects the prolonged troubles that have afflicted the Spanish brand since the 2008 economic slump.

On a beautiful February morning in 1784, the first American trade ship to China, Empress of China, set sail from New York. To pay for the tea, its holds were filled with 242 casks of choice New ...

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 ...

From pirates to tea to opium, Eric Jay Dolin's new book, When America First Met China, describes the long and complicated history of the trade relationship between the two countries.

The lure of the China market led to the first circumnavigation of the globe by a U.S.-flagged vessel, the Columbia, which in 1787 sailed from Boston via Cape Horn to the Puget Sound area to trade ...

America began trade with China in 1784, with the Philadelphia ship the Empress of China. Popular trade goods were tea, porcelain and fabric. The Chinese were skeptical of foreign powers, and trading ...

Hong Kong Repertory Theatre Hong Kong City Hall Theatre Jan 15, 19-22, 25-29, 7.45pm; Jan 16, 22-23, 29-30, 2.45pm This bilingual period drama penned by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre's former ...