The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845
Paul A. Van Dyke
This study utilizes a wide range of new source materials to reconstruct the day-to-day operations of the port of Canton during the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Using a bottom-up approach, it provides a fresh look at the successes and failures of the trade by focusing on the practices and procedures rather than on the official policies and protocols. The narrative, however, reads like a story as the author unravels the daily lives of all the players from sampan operators, pilots, compradors and linguists, to country traders, supercargoes, Hong merchants and customs officials. New areas to studies of this kind are covered as well, such as Armenians, junk traders and rice traders, all of whom played intricate roles in moving the commerce forward.
年:
2007
出版社:
Hong Kong University Press
语言:
english
页:
336
ISBN 10:
9622098282
ISBN 13:
9789622098282
文件:
PDF, 18.30 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2007
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