China trade and empire : Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the origins of British rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843 / edited by Alain Le Pichon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Le Pichon, Alain.

Series:

Records of social and economic history ; new ser., 38.

Records of social and economic history ; new ser., 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jardine, William, 1784-1843--Correspondence.

Jardine, William.

Matheson, James, 1796-1878--Correspondence.

Matheson, James.

Matheson, James, 1796-1878.

Jardine, William, 1784-1843.

Jardine, Matheson & Co--History.

Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Commerce.

History.

Great Britain--Commerce--China.

Great Britain.

China--Commerce--Great Britain.

China.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xvii, 626 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

The letters of William Jardine and James Matheson, co-founders of the Hong Kong Trading Firm Jardine, Matheson & Co., shed new light on the important commercial, economic and political developments of the nineteenth century. Local and world politics, debate about freedom, monopoly and free trade, the conduct of the Opium War and the beginnings of British rule in Hong Kong are passionately discussed alongside the immediate business concerns of tea, opium and British exports to China. The letters from the Jardine Matheson Archive, collected here for the first time, portray a fascinating commercial, political and personal drama played out in England, Scotland, India, and China. A substantial introduction provides the historical background of British involvement in Eastern trade from the eighteenth century up to the beginnings of British Rule in Hong Kong.

Contents:

The Jardine Matheson Archive xviii

1 Patterns of Eastern Trade: 1784-1834 1

2 The Balance of Trade 8

3 Jardine, Matheson & Co., 1827-1843 20

4 The Opium War 36

Editorial Method 52

Jardine Matheson Correspondence, 1827-1843 55

Appendix I Out-correspondence 534

Appendix II In-correspondence 536

Appendix III Letter references 543

Appendix IV Canton Petition, 24th December 1830 553

Appendix V Canton Petition, 9th December 1834 560

Appendix VI Glasgow Petition, 2nd June 1835 564

Appendix VII Liverpool Petition, February 1836 566

Appendix VIII Manchester Petition, February 1836 568

Appendix IX East India Company Ships, their Manging Owners and Commanders, 1829-1830 570

Appendix X Text of the Treaty of Nanking 572

Appendix XI The Principal Characters in the Letters 576.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

0197263372

OCLC:

61756534

Publisher Number:

9780197263372 (hbk.)