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The Golden Ghetto : The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Echoes SeriesPublisher: Aberdeen : Hong Kong University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (507 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789888313327
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Golden GhettoDDC classification:
  • 337.51/275
LOC classification:
  • HF3840.C36
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction to the Republication of The Golden Ghetto -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: The Golden Ghetto -- 1. Old Canton and Its Trade -- 2. American Business under the Old System -- 3. Opium Transforms the Canton System -- Part Two: The Residents and Their Firms -- 4. The Dominant Firms -- 5. The Other Houses -- 6. The China Trader -- Part Three: Cushing's Treaty -- 7. The Creation of an Official Policy -- 8. The Mission to China -- 9. Retrospection -- Epilogue: The Legacy of Old Canton -- List of Abbreviations -- Appendix 1: Wade-Giles-Pinyin Equivalents -- Appendix 2: Statistics and the American Trade -- Appendix 3: A Note on the Silver Trade -- Appendix 4: Known Partners of American Firms at Canton, 1803-44 -- Appendix 5: Commercial Family Alliances -- Appendix 6: Robert Bennet Forbes's Correspondence with Warren Delano, 1879 -- Appendix 7: A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction to the Republication of The Golden Ghetto -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: The Golden Ghetto -- 1. Old Canton and Its Trade -- 2. American Business under the Old System -- 3. Opium Transforms the Canton System -- Part Two: The Residents and Their Firms -- 4. The Dominant Firms -- 5. The Other Houses -- 6. The China Trader -- Part Three: Cushing's Treaty -- 7. The Creation of an Official Policy -- 8. The Mission to China -- 9. Retrospection -- Epilogue: The Legacy of Old Canton -- List of Abbreviations -- Appendix 1: Wade-Giles-Pinyin Equivalents -- Appendix 2: Statistics and the American Trade -- Appendix 3: A Note on the Silver Trade -- Appendix 4: Known Partners of American Firms at Canton, 1803-44 -- Appendix 5: Commercial Family Alliances -- Appendix 6: Robert Bennet Forbes's Correspondence with Warren Delano, 1879 -- Appendix 7: A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates.

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