The private side of the Canton trade, 1700-1840 : beyond the companies /

It is not often recognized that China was one of the few places in the early modern world where all merchants had equal access to the market. This study shows that private traders, regardless of the volume of their trade, were granted the same privileges in Canton as the large East India companies....

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مؤلفون آخرون: Van Dyke, Paul Arthur (المحرر), Schopp, Susan E. (المحرر)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press [2018]
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv4cbj3j
جدول المحتويات:
  • Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. British Private Traders between India and China; 2. Ambiguous Faces of the Canton Trade; 3. French Private Trade at Canton, 1698-1833; 4. Trading with Traders; 5. The Private Eye in Old Canton; 6. Nathan Dunn (1782-1844) as Anti-Opium China Trader and Sino-Western Cultural Intermediary; 7. The Life and Loves of Michael Grubb; 8. 'Money, Credit, and Strong Friends'; Conclusion; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.