Canton and Salem
The Impact of Chinese Culture upon New England Life during the Post-Revolutionary Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16305066 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ping Chia Kuo (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1930 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 420 |
| Publication date | 1930-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/359396 |
| OpenAlex | W2039013763 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
FOR two centuries after the first settlement of America, a voyage from New England to the nearest European coast took no less than four weeks. The countries in the Far East were, naturally, looked upon as being as distant as were the Pillars of Hercules to the ancient Greeks. Nevertheless, scarcely was the Revolutionary War in America over than a host of merchants and sailors, zealous to extend their empire of trade, began to make the first experiments in trading with the Orient. Soon an active trade arose between Salem, then a nursery of sea-faring youths, and Canton, in southern China, to which every son of Naumkeag now looks back with pride. In the half-century following the voyage of the Grand Turk in 1785-6, the first Salem ship to visit China, no less than thirty-four vessels entered the port of Salem, richly laden with cargoes from distant Cathay
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1967 - 2023 (57) |
| Highly cited | No |