The Resource The golden ghetto : the American commercial community at Canton and the shaping of American China policy, 1784-1844, Jacques M. Downs
The golden ghetto : the American commercial community at Canton and the shaping of American China policy, 1784-1844, Jacques M. Downs
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- Summary
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- The work covers the exotic life at the Canton factories, the institutions of the community, its development of informal policies for dealing with emergencies and with the Chinese, the guild of merchants with whom foreigners dealt, and the Chinese bureaucracy that regulated and observed their lives in China. Opium smuggling receives especial emphasis, since it provided the economic base of the community and affected the traders' views of China and the Chinese
- Also included are short histories of the resident American firms, sketches of the lives and personalities of a number of American China traders, and a comparative study of the trade, organization, and "culture" of these firms. This part of the study breaks entirely new ground and is necessary for an understanding of the formation of later American policy. Finally, the book examines the first American diplomatic mission to China in 1843
- This book details the life of American merchants and missionaries who lived at Canton, the only port in the Celestial Empire open to foreigners in the sixty years after the Revolution before America developed a China policy. While in China, these Americans lived isolated from Chinese society and in sybaritic, albeit celibate luxury. Nevertheless, they often made fortunes in a few years and returned home to become important figures in the rapidly developing United States
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 495 pages 3 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Contents
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- Pt.1. The Golden ghetto. Old Canton and its trade. American business under the old system. Opium transforms the Canton System
- Pt.2. The residents and their firms. The dominant firms. The other houses. The China trader
- Pt.3. Cushing's Treaty. The creation of an officical policy. The mission to China. Retrospection
- Epilogue: The legacy of Old Canton
- Isbn
- 9780934223355
- Label
- The golden ghetto : the American commercial community at Canton and the shaping of American China policy, 1784-1844
- Title
- The golden ghetto
- Title remainder
- the American commercial community at Canton and the shaping of American China policy, 1784-1844
- Statement of responsibility
- Jacques M. Downs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- The work covers the exotic life at the Canton factories, the institutions of the community, its development of informal policies for dealing with emergencies and with the Chinese, the guild of merchants with whom foreigners dealt, and the Chinese bureaucracy that regulated and observed their lives in China. Opium smuggling receives especial emphasis, since it provided the economic base of the community and affected the traders' views of China and the Chinese
- Also included are short histories of the resident American firms, sketches of the lives and personalities of a number of American China traders, and a comparative study of the trade, organization, and "culture" of these firms. This part of the study breaks entirely new ground and is necessary for an understanding of the formation of later American policy. Finally, the book examines the first American diplomatic mission to China in 1843
- This book details the life of American merchants and missionaries who lived at Canton, the only port in the Celestial Empire open to foreigners in the sixty years after the Revolution before America developed a China policy. While in China, these Americans lived isolated from Chinese society and in sybaritic, albeit celibate luxury. Nevertheless, they often made fortunes in a few years and returned home to become important figures in the rapidly developing United States
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1926-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Downs, Jacques M.
- Dewey number
- 337.51/275
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HF3840.C36
- LC item number
- D69 1997
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Americans
- Merchants
- Guangzhou (China)
- United States
- China
- Label
- The golden ghetto : the American commercial community at Canton and the shaping of American China policy, 1784-1844, Jacques M. Downs
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-487) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Pt.1. The Golden ghetto. Old Canton and its trade. American business under the old system. Opium transforms the Canton System -- Pt.2. The residents and their firms. The dominant firms. The other houses. The China trader -- Pt.3. Cushing's Treaty. The creation of an officical policy. The mission to China. Retrospection -- Epilogue: The legacy of Old Canton
- Control code
- 34046271
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 495 pages 3 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Isbn
- 9780934223355
- Lccn
- 96004167
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), map
- Label
- The golden ghetto : the American commercial community at Canton and the shaping of American China policy, 1784-1844, Jacques M. Downs
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-487) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Pt.1. The Golden ghetto. Old Canton and its trade. American business under the old system. Opium transforms the Canton System -- Pt.2. The residents and their firms. The dominant firms. The other houses. The China trader -- Pt.3. Cushing's Treaty. The creation of an officical policy. The mission to China. Retrospection -- Epilogue: The legacy of Old Canton
- Control code
- 34046271
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 495 pages 3 unnumbered leaves of plates
- Isbn
- 9780934223355
- Lccn
- 96004167
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), map
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