Marshall, Blake, and Mike discuss the imaginative stories that Enlightenment figures like Benjamin Franklin told about exotic, faraway lands like China — places the Western world knew little about — in this excerpt from Episode 201 — "The Flag Follows Trade" — of the United States of Amnesia podcast series "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus," which discusses the persistent American misunderstanding of China.
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