In this excerpt from Episode 202 ("Conflict Follows Trade") of the United States of Amnesia podcast series "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus" — which discusses how the United States always has misunderstood China — Marshall describes how American merchants seeking trade with China in the 1820s and 1830s established a market in bêche-de-mer — also known as sea cucumbers.
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