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Seeking Profit and Power: Philadelphia, China Trade, and the Making of America

Independence Seaport Museum · Penn's Landing

Seeking Profit and Power: Philadelphia, China Trade, and the Making of America

Now showing20 March 2026 – 3 January 2028·$23

Around 150 rarely seen objects trace how the young United States, cut off from British trade after the Revolution, turned east to China and built itself into a global economic power.

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