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- catalog abstract "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. 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.".
- catalog contributor b10430142.
- catalog coverage "China Foreign economic relations United States.".
- catalog coverage "Guangzhou (China) Commerce History.".
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign economic relations China.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-487) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "495 p. [3] leaves of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Golden ghetto.".
- catalog identifier "0934223351".
- catalog isFormatOf "Golden ghetto.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press,".
- catalog relation "Golden ghetto.".
- catalog spatial "China Foreign economic relations United States.".
- catalog spatial "China Guangzhou".
- catalog spatial "Guangzhou (China) Commerce History.".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign economic relations China.".
- catalog subject "337.51/275 20".
- catalog subject "Americans China Guangzhou History.".
- catalog subject "HF3840.C36 D69 1997".
- catalog subject "Merchants China Guangzhou History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The golden ghetto : the American commercial community at Canton and the shaping of American China policy, 1784-1844 / Jacques M. Downs.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".