City Afloat: Rethinking the “Other” Side of Canton, 1757-1949
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City Afloat: Rethinking the “Other” Side of Canton, 1757-1949
Editor’s note: This is the sixth post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Qingyun Lin There is no spectacle in the world more wonderful to a stranger’s eyes than the river population of the Celestial Empire.[1]—Osmond Tiffany (1823-1895) In May 1844, Osmond Tiffany—a young man from a prominent Baltimore merchant family—set sail for China aboard the barque Pioneer from the east coast …
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