Titlebook: Splendors of Quanzhou, Past and Present; William N. Brown Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2023 NewChannel International Education Group Limited 2023 Maritime

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,Anxi—Oolong Tea Capital of China, into Boston Harbor. Thus, Fujian helped pave the way for American independence. While it is not certain that Anxi tea was one of the 5 kinds of Fujian tea at the Boston Tea Party, Anxi tea was even then very popular in the West.

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,Dehua—China’s Ancient Porcelain Production Center, product. Thin as eggshells, translucent in sunlight, ringing like a bell when struck, porcelain captured the imagination of Westerners like nothing since Cleopatra’s Chinese silk negligees, and was so seductive in its allure that Europeans used “China” as a euphemism for “sex”.

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The Story of Zaytun,Columbus may have ended up in a “new world” but he was seeking an ancient one. He had devoured Marco Polo’s accounts of the legendary wealth of Quanzhou, from which the Venetian vagabond sailed for home.

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