"What Moby-Dick is to whales, Brilliant Beacons is to lighthouses—a transformative account of a familiar yet mystical subject." —Laurence Bergreen, author o

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Traces the history of the relationship between America and China back to its earliest days, when the United States traded with China for furs, opium, and rare s