The ship is the 25-year-old Empress, which is now sailing for the ... He cited strength in the Caribbean and China, as well as Royal’s 7-month-old program of not discounting close-in cruises ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Americans were eager to establish their own trade with China once we became a country. So the wealthy merchants got together, built a fabulous ship - the Empress of China - and sent it off on ...