Photo Gallery for Tea, Drugs, and Jesus
1785 advertisement for the sale of Chinese goods the merchant ship Empress of China brought to the United States. (Episode 201: The Flag Follows Trade)
The East India Company flag in 1842. (Episode 201: The Flag Follows Trade and Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
A Chinese tea plantation during the first half of the 19th century. (Episode 201: The Flag Follows Trade)
An 1824 painting of opium ships arriving in China. (Episode 201: The Flag Follows Trade and Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
A 19th-century illustration of Chinese opium smokers. (Episode 201: The Flag Follows Trade and Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
A busy opium storehouse in India during the 19th century. (Episode 201: The Flag Follows Trade and Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
The United States tried to establish a ginseng (above) trade with China. (Attribution: 국립국어원; used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Korea license) (Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
Marine mammal pelts were another commodity exploited in U.S. trade with China. Above: Northern fur seals, one source of pelts. (NOAA photo) (Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
Seal lions were another source of fur. . . (NOAA photo) (Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
. . .as were sea otters. (NOAA photo) (Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
The United States attempted to trade in sandalwood (left) and sea cucumbers (right) in China. (Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
An 1850 portrait of Lin Zexu, who tried to clean up China's problem with opium. His efforts triggered the First Opium War. (Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
A British Royal Navy warship (right background) destroys Chinese junks during the First Opium War (1839–1842). (Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
Chinese and British troops in combat during the First Opium War (1839–1842). (Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
A 1916 portrait of Qishan, whose peace agreement with the British infuriated the Chinese emperor. (Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
The signing of the Treaty of Nanking (now Nanjing) in 1842, which opened China to foreign influence, including trade and missionaries. (Episode 202: Conflict Follows Trade)
Clipper ships were very fast for their time and gave the United States a maritime trade advantage for about a decade in the mid-19th century. (Episode 203: Rebellion Follows Faith)
A leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), possibly Hong Xiuquan himself. (Episode 203: Rebellion Follows Faith)
Ground and naval combat during the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864). (Episode 203: Rebellion Follows Faith)
An 1857 Harper's Weekly illustration of Chinese miners in California. (Episode 203: Rebellion Follows Faith)
Chinese laborers constructing a railroad in the western United States in the 19th century. (Episode 203: Rebellion Follows Faith)
An 1898 French political cartoon depicts foreign powers carving up China into spheres of influence. (Episode 204: The Harmonious Fists)
Boxer soldiers, ca. 1900. (Episode 204: The Harmonious Fists)
United States Marines in combat with the Boxers at the Legation Quarter in Peking (now Beijing) in the summer of 1900. (Episode 204: The Harmonious Fists)
U.S. soldiers in China during the Boxer Rebellion, ca. 1900. (Episode 204: The Harmonious Fists)
LEFT: Charlie Soong at Vanderbilt University (1882–1886). RIGHT: Sun Yat-Sen in 1922.
The Soong sisters.
Henry Luce on the cover of Time.
Pearl S. Buck in 1960. Her best-selling 1931 novel The Good Earth won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Chinese soldiers advancing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).
Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang (Soong Mei-ling), and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell in 1942.
General Joseph Stilwell (right) walks out of Burma in May 1942.
General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (left) and Major General Claire "Old Leatherface" Chennault (right) were bitter rivals in China.
LEFT: A Chinese soldier guards U.S. Army Air Forces P-40 Warhawks with "Flying Tigers" markings, ca. 1942. RIGHT: The Flying Tigers over China on May 28, 1942.
Uncle Sam shakes hands with a Chinese soldier beneath a portrait of Sun Yat-sen in an October 1942 U.S. Government poster encouraging American support for China.
Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Madame Chiang at the Cairo Conference in November 1943.
Trucks on the Ledo Road in 1945.
Mao Zedong and President Richard Nixon shake hands in Beijing on February 21, 1972.
