The Canton Trade – Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700–1845
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Hong Kong University Press
Published:1st Aug '07
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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.
This is an impressive piece of scholarship, rich in new data and filled with new insights. Its publication will prove important to scholars of late imperial China and economic history. The former will learn a revisionist perspective on the Canton system that shows how the court largely adapted to the evolving conditions in Canton in the eighteenth century. The latter will learn much about the mechanics of international trade in an era preceding European dominance. -- R. Bin Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
ISBN: 9789622098282
Dimensions: 227mm x 160mm x 23mm
Weight: 608g
336 pages