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 ...

"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 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 ...

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 ...

he was a customer at the elaborate Empress of China restaurant in San Francisco. It’s been nearly a decade since the iconic restaurant closed, and now the former space will bear his name.

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 ...

Wu Zetian rose from the bottom of the hierarchy to become the only empress in China's history. Buddhism, a religion born in India, and Nalanda-trained scholars played an important role as Wu ...

Five stories tall, with commanding views of the city, Empress of China has been a Chinatown landmark since the '60s, with a wall covered in portraits of visiting celebrities from its '80s heyday.

Empress Wu Zetian entered the Chinese court ... Titanic’s first ever 3D scan reveals details of doomed ship’s final hours What Earth Would Look Like If Humans Disappeared Tomorrow Origin ...

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.

But Min means to set the record straight -- albeit in historical novel form -- reclaiming the eponymous empress of 19th century China with a double-volume revisionist account of her much-maligned ...

Empress of China, TinFish Theatre. Tz’u-hsi, the Chinese empress who climbed back to power while her enemies (including family members) conveniently met untimely deaths, could easily be ...