Author: William F. SturgisPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
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Letter from William F Sturgis to John Perkins Cushing
Author: William F. SturgisThe Golden Ghetto
Author: Jacques M. DownsPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888139096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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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
Letter to Elizabeth Perkins
Author: John Perkins CushingExplorations in Entrepreneurial History
Author: Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Index to the North American Review, Volumes I.-CXXV., 1815-1877
Author: William CushingPublisher:
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Category : North American review
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Edward Sturgis of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, 1613-1695
Author: Roger Faxton SturgisThe United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
Author: Negotiating Friendships
Author: Shuo WangPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110625997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Social network are nowadays inherent parts of our lives and highly developed communication technique helps us maintain our relationships. But how did it work in the early 19th century, in a time without cell phones and internet? A Chinese Hong Merchant in Canton Trade named Houqua (1769–1843), who lived in isolated Qing China, gives us an outstanding answer. Despite various barriers in cultures, languages, political situations and his identity as a Chinese merchant strictly under control of the Qing government, Houqua established a commercial network across three continents: Asia, North America and Europe. This book will not only uncover his secrets and actions in his Chinese social network especially patronage relationships in traditional Chinese society, but also reconstruct his intercultural network, including his unique and even "modern" friendship with some American traders which lasted almost half a century after Houqua ́s death.
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