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

by Weng Eang Cheong

Overview

This study eschews the uncritical acceptance of secondary sources that has characterized studies in this field, going back to and reinterpreting previously neglected primary sources, thereby enabling it to chart linkages between the European and Asian trades that have been regarded as parallel but unrelated (or at best competing) activities. In so doing, the work sheds new light on this crucial period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138971974
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/26/2015
Series:	Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series , #70
Pages:	387
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

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