Author: Jonathan GoldsteinPublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Resources on Early Sino-American Relations in Philadelphia's Stephen Girard Collection and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Author: Jonathan GoldsteinPublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Golden Ghetto
Author: Jacques M. DownsPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888139096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Before the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city’s most important foreign communities—the Americans—during the decades between the American Revolution of 1776 and the signing of the Sino-US Treaty of Wanghia in 1844. American merchants lived in isolation from Chinese society in sybaritic, albeit usually celibate luxury. Making use of exhaustive research, Downs provides an especially clear explanation of the Canton commercial setting generally and of the role of American merchants. Many of these men made fortunes and returned home to become important figures in the rapidly developing United States. The book devotes particular attention to the biographical details of the principal American traders, the leading American firms, and their operations in Canton and the United States. Opium smuggling receives especial emphasis, as does the important topic of early diplomatic relations between the United States and China. Since its first publication in 1997, The Golden Ghettohas been recognized as the leading work on Americans trading at Canton. Long out of print, this new edition makes this key work again available, both to scholars and a wider readership. “The fullest exposition on the subject thus far and as the final word on extant, previously untapped, English-language sources.” — Eileen Scully, in The China Quarterly
Americans and Macao
Author: Paul A. Van DykePublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888083929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The theme of this volume is the American relationship with Macao and its region through trade, politics and culture, and the focus is mainly on the late 18th and 19th centuries. The essays address topics such as the role of the China trade in US pacific expansion and exploration, US consuls, smuggling networks, missionary and educational work, and American women's perceptions of China. In all of the encounters, Macao emerges as a central player, adding a new dimension to our understanding of Sino-American relations.
The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking
Author: Frederic Delano Grant, Jr.Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004276564
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Modern bank insurance is traced to its roots in The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933. Frederic Delano Grant, Jr. provides new understandings of the Canton System, collective responsibility for debt at Canton, and the history of deposit insurance. The Canton Guaranty System inspired radical reform in New York in 1829 – the ancestor of all modern deposit insurance. Yet it was never the success imagined, and soon failed. In the Opium War, the Chinese government as implicit guarantor was forced to pay its debts in full on 23 July 1843. The afflictions of the Chinese system, including moral hazard, too big to fail, and unenforced laws, remain familiar today.
Early Sino-amer Relations
Author: Kenneth W. ReaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429726899
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In this collection of seven essays, Sino-American relations from 1841 through 1912 are examined by one of America's foremost authorities on the topic. Relying heavily on Chinese material and concentrating on the Chinese perspective, Professor Swisher introduces new material and analyzes selected aspects of these relations in detail.
Chʻing-shih Wen-tʻi
Author: Newsletter
Author: Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Bulletin - Association for Asian Studies, Inc., Committee on East Asian Libraries
Author: Association for Asian Studies. Committee on East Asian LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
America, History and Life
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
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