Merchants of Canton and Macao : politics and strategies in eighteenth-century Chinese trade / Paul A. Van Dyke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Dyke, Paul Arthur.

Contributor:

Isaac Norris Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merchants--China--Guangzhou--History--18th century.

Merchants.

Merchants--China--Macau--History--18th century.

History.

Guangzhou (China)--Commerce--History--18th century.

Guangzhou (China).

Macau (China)--Commerce--History--18th century.

Macau (China).

China--Commercial policy.

China.

Commercial policy.

China--Foreign economic relations.

International economic relations.

China--Macau.

China--Guangzhou.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 545 pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; Kyoto : Kyoto University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Paul Van Dyke works in many languages and archives to uncover the history of Pearl River trade. This two-volume work is likely to be the most definitive reference work on the major trading families of Guangzhou. Organized as a series of family studies, this first volume includes exhaustive profiles of nine of the dominant hongs and their founding patriarchs for which good information survives: Tan Suqua, Tan Hunqua, Cai and Qiu, Beaukeequa, Yan, Mandarin Quiqua, Ye and Tacqua Amoy, Zhang, and Liang. Paul Van Dyke is associate professor of history at University of Macau.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [483]-517) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Isaac Norris Library Fund.

ISBN:

9789888028917

988802891X

OCLC:

753307035