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9780195853735

The Taipans Hong Kong's Merchant Princes

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195853735

  • ISBN10:

    0195853733

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1991-10-17
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The Taipans is a popular account of Hong Kong's merchant princes from the origins of the first trading houses in eighteenth-century Canton and Macau to the beginning of the First World War. The early taipans, hard-headed business men from Britain, the USA, and India, built up immense fortunes from the opium trade. In the 1830s a single company, Jardine & Matheson, controlled one-third of China's foreign trade. In later years some of the original trading houses diversified successfully while others crashed into bankruptcy. At the same time a class of Chinese middlemen and merchants grew up, establishing the foundations of Hong Kong's influential Chinese business class. First published in 1981, The Taipans is reissued with a completely new final chapter on Hong Kong's contemporary taipans.

Author Biography

Colin N. Crisswell is the Deputy Principal of an international secondary school in Hong Kong, and has written numerous books and articles on Asian history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. vi
Platesp. viii
Introductionp. 1
A Most Gentlemanlike Speculationp. 9
Early Days in Cantonp. 11
The Princely Hong and the End of the Canton Systemp. 24
Between the Two Warsp. 69
Anglo-Chinese Relationsp. 71
Trade with Chinap. 79
Hong Kong Affairsp. 88
Hong Kong Business and Social Lifep. 97
Old and New China Handsp. 117
The Old China Handsp. 119
The Sassoonsp. 135
Bankingp. 143
Taikoop. 149
Hong Kong--the Old Order Changethp. 167
Civic Affairsp. 169
Business and Social Affairsp. 186
Epiloguep. 218
Select Bibliographyp. 234
Indexp. 237
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