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The frequent communication and exchanges between China and the United States in the late Qing Dynasty affected not only China's modernization history, but also the rise and growth of the United States. After contact in the 19th century, both China and the United States underwent historic changes. China ended two thousand years of feudal monarchy, and the United States became the world's largest superpower. On the basis of respecting rigorous historical facts, this book restores and takes inventory of major events in Sino-US exchanges in the 19th century, such as the opium trade, the Treaty of Wangxia, Chinese workers in the United States, the Burlingame mission's visit to the United States, Young Children's Study in the United States, Grant's visit to China, Li Hongzhang's visit to the United States, the Eight-Power Allied Forces' invasion of China, the return of the Boxer Indemnity, etc. The book takes time as the main axis, and summarizes similar events in Sino-US interactions into one category and puts them into one chapter. This facilitates reference and comparison. Chinese people look at the United States, and Americans look at China. In the 19th century, the two major powers looked at each other and stared at each other, profoundly changing the world structure.