The Golden Ghetto : The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844

Englisch

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2015

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Print version: The Golden Ghetto : The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 17841844

978-988-8139-09-5

978-988-8313-32-7 : 54.76 (NL)

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Contents; Introduction to the Republication of The Golden Ghetto; Foreword; Introduction; Part One: The Golden Ghetto; 1. Old Canton and Its Trade; 2. American Business under the Old System; 3. Opium Transforms the Canton System; Part Two: The Residents and Their Firms; 4. The Dominant Firms; 5. The Other Houses; Plates; 6. The China Trader; Part Three: Cushing's Treaty; 7. The Creation of an Official Policy; 8. The Mission to China; 9. Retrospection; Epilogue: The Legacy of Old Canton; List of Abbreviations; Appendix 1: Wade-Giles-Pinyin Equivalents

Appendix 2: Statistics and the American TradeAppendix 3: A Note on the Silver Trade; Appendix 4: Known Partners of American Firms at Canton, 1803-44; Appendix 5: Commercial Family Alliances; Appendix 6: Robert Bennet Forbes's Correspondence with Warren Delano, 1879; Appendix 7: A Note on Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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*Americans ; China ; Guangzhou ; History ; China ; Foreign economic relations ; United States ; Guangzhou (China) ; Commerce ; History ; Merchants ; China ; Guangzhou ; History ; United States ; Foreign economic relations ; China ; Electronic books

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: HF3840.C36

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 337.51/275;

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

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