日志
中国皇后号 -梅阿芳背后的真正故事
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February22 1784 中国皇后号
几个礼拜
Bests
Hope
单程 Baltimore O'donnell 智慧女神号 Pallas
Columbia Rediviva
The Asia and Canton from Philadelphia, and the Jenny from New York, and two more ships were expected: the General Washington from Rhode Island and the Jay, formerly the Hope, from New York.
对美国新生婴儿的意义
46With the successful enterprises of the Empress of China and the Columbia Rediviva, the “New People” expected to expand their economic horizons not only in the Caribbean and European markets, but also in the Far East, to be reached both from the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. In other words, the new social order provided by the American government would allow for expanding the economy beyond the borders of British mercantilism, to participate, including through this new commerce with China, in the new spirit of expectant capitalism within the ranks of Jeffersonian America. As the Republican Congressman Edward Livingston stated in a toast in 1798: “The Colossus of American freedom: may it bestride the commerce of the world” (quoted in Appleby 88).
