Name/Title
The Golden GhettoEntry/Object ID
2022.008Description
This book details the life of American merchants nad missionaries who lived at Canton. 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.
Physical Description: hardcover book in dusty blue dust cover with chinese painting of Canton harbor on coverCollection
ReferenceBook Details
Author
Downs, Jacques M.Edition
FirstPublisher
Lehigh University PressDate Published
1997Publication Language
EnglishCall No.
337.51ISBN
0-934223-35-1