The Hong Merchants of Canton: Chinese Merchants in Sino-Western Trade, 1684-1798

ISBN-13: 9781138971974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 387 str.

Weng Eang Cheong

Opis

Breaking new ground, this study eschews the uncritical acceptance of secondary sources, returning to and reinterpreting previously neglected primary sources. The work sheds new light on this period and will be of interest to economic historians beyond the field of the old China trade.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: The Early Merchants, 1684–1740; 2: The Merchant-Bureaucrat, 1740–98; 3: The Leaders and Their Firms, 1684–1796; 4: Officials and the Trade; 5: Merchant Debts; Reappraisal; Histogram

O autorze

Weng Eang Cheong