Global Positioning: Houqua and His China Trade Partners in the Nineteenth Century
This study unearths the lost world of early-nineteenth-century Canton. Known today as Guangzhou, this Chinese city witnessed the economic dynamism of global commerce until the demise of the Canton System in 1842. Records of its commercial vitality and global interactions faded only because we have a...
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Harvard University
2012
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| Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10283 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9282867 |