Precious Cargo - Scots and the China Trade

By Susan Leiper
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The rich and exciting story of the adventurous, often eccentric, Scots involved in the trade between China and Britain. This account of the meeting of two strong cultures concentrates on the Scottish traders, diplomats, medical and military men, missionaries, plantsmen, and tea-tasters who helped set up the trade not only in silks and porcelains but also in tea, drugs, and garden plants. The superb illustrations include many previously unpublished early photographs of life in China and Hong Kong, and all manner of trade items from teas to textiles, porcelains to primulas and rhubarb root to rhododendrons. Susan Leiper has travelled extensively in China and edits books on Chinese art and archaeology.

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