treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society … found everywhere in the records but are almost invisible in the literature. The China Firm addresses this problem through a … study of the men and women involved in the most prominent and important American trading firm in treaty-port China …

finds itself confronting not just Russia in Europe but China in the Indo-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America. Shedding new … economic decline. A World Safe for Commerce reveals how trade competition could lead the United States and China into full … conflicts between the United States and China …