In his book, Raising the Flag: America's First Envoysin Faraway Lands, published in 2018, Mr. Peter Eicher quotes Dr. Dave Wang's
paper, Benjamin Franklin and China: Benjamin Franklin and China ---A Survey ofBenjamin Franklin’s Efforts at Drawing Positive Elements from ChineseCivilization during the Formative Age of the United States.
It is widely know
that the United States sent envoys to China to advance American interests.
However not much academic research has been done about these first envoys until
now. The author of the book, Mr. Eicher, is a
retired U.S. Foreign Service officer who served in Europe, the Middle
East, Africa, and the Pacific. In this book, he "profiles the characters
who influenced the formative period of American diplomacy and the first steps
the United States took as a world power."
