Captain Carl Gustav Ekeberg's engravings, which depicted the Pearl River sites, focused on the commercial relations between Chinese and Western Merchants. An engraving portrayed a foreign factory site in Canton which became a symbol of social isolation and Western economic power in China.
Canton, Whampoa, Boca Tigris, and Macao, the most famous sites on the Pearl River, defined China for the West for much of the eighteenth century and continue to signify the China trade in our time. The ...