By Yue He Parkinson When I first arrived in the UK in 2004, I carried a quiet conviction that some of the cultural habits I grew up with were weaknesses — instincts shaped by hierarchy, caution, attention to unspoken tension, and the need to read a room before speaking. For years, these habits felt […]
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By Ellen Terrell Map of China. The pink in the bottom right center is Canton, and an enlarged portion is the lower left square. Colton’s China, 1861, J.H. Colton: New York (Library of Congress/ Geography and Map Division) As part of my Junior Fellow project, “Exploring American Business History in the First Industrial Revolution,”
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