Brown University was funded by a fortune from the Old China Trade. John Brown's ship #1 voyage of "General Washington" 12/ 27/ 1787 departing Rhode Island, arriving at Whampoa 10/ 27/1788, back to RI 10/20/ 1789 #2 Voyage by the General Washington to the East Indies—12/30/1789 t ...
In 1906 the Chinese government sent forty students from Tien Tsin University to be educated in the United States. They attended the Harvard summer school and were then placed at Cornell, Amherst, M. I. T., Boston University, Harvard, and Brown. The five who entered Brown, all ...
John Brown House – 52 Power St – The John Brown House is the first mansion built in Providence, Rhode Island. The house is named after the original owner and one of the early benefactors of the University, the early American merchant and statesman John Brown. ...
This is the first scholarly study in which the production, trade and political effects of opium and its derivatives are shown over many centuries, and in many countries (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, all Southeast Asian countries and some in Europe and the Americas). Starting in the ...