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Sino-British Cultural Exchange
Sino-British exchanges were relatively limited before the eighteenth century. It was not until the first half of the seventeenth century that China and Great Britain began trading directly with one another. In 1637, merchants from the East India Company (a.k.a. British East India Company) initiated direct Sino-British trade when their ships first arrived in Guangdong.