1st Edition
The Hong Merchants of Canton Chinese Merchants in Sino-Western Trade, 1684-1798
By Weng Eang Cheong
Copyright 1997
387 Pages
by
Routledge
388 Pages
by
Routledge
388 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Weng Eang Cheong
