Western Enterprise in Late Ch'ing China / Edward LeFevour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LeFevour, Edward, author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 26.

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 26

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jardine, Matheson & Co.

International economic relations.

China--Foreign economic relations.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1968.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The purpose of this study, therefore, is to examine aspects of Western entrepreneurial behavior and its effects in late Ch'ing China (the period between the treaty of Nanking and the Sino-Japanese war, 1842-1895) from the surviving records of the largest Western firm in China during those years, Jardine, Matheson and Company.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Edward Le Fevour

Introduction / Edward Le Fevour

The Opium Trade / Edward Le Fevour

The Cotton Trade / Edward Le Fevour

Years of Transition in Trade / Edward Le Fevour

Cooperation with the Bureaucracy / Edward Le Fevour

The Firm as Special Agent to the Chinese Government / Edward Le Fevour

The Imperial Household / Edward Le Fevour

Railways and Loans / Edward Le Fevour

Conclusion / Edward Le Fevour

The Jardine Matheson Archive / Edward Le Fevour

Insurance and Banking / Edward Le Fevour

Korea / Edward Le Fevour

Kerosene / Edward Le Fevour

The Export Trade / Edward Le Fevour

Notes / Edward Le Fevour

Bibliography / Edward Le Fevour

Harvard East Asian Monographs, 26 / Edward Le Fevour.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Western Enterprise in Late Ch'ing China,

ISBN:

9781684171576

9780674950108

OCLC:

652254569

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684171576 DOI

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