My newest Asian history column. Was the story of Chow Mandarien, the first Chinese American to have arrived and died in Boston in 1798 really the story of a tragic gay romance?

#ChineseAmericanHistory #maritimehistory #NewEnglandhistory #Chinatrade

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My newest post in my substack column, Mostly Asian History.

"Writing Popular History in the Absence of Factual Data - There’s an art to it."

#historiography #writingpopularhistory #Chineseamericanhistory #writinghistory #ChowMandarien #history

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Chinese - American relations and its history. Starting at the beginning, the 1780s.

#ChineseAmericanHistory #Maritimehistory #NewEnglandChinaTrade #Chinatrade #Chinesehistory

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