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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…
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This is the authoritative historical account of heritage wealth related to American participation in the Old China Trade (before and after the First Opium War).
Downs details the kinship alliances of US family firms over a century and describes the logistics of trade as well as the historical archives related to it.
In a canon of authoritative scholarship on early US trade with China, The Golden Ghetto stands next to the subsequent fine books by Jay Dolin, James Fichter, John Haddad, Dane Morrison, Dael Norwood, John Pomfret, and Dong Wang, and the scholarship addressing Qing-era trade regulation by Paul…
From Kendall's list on The best books on the fog of Opium Wars in US-China relations.
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