Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Money, Weights and Abbreviations
- Author's Preface
- CHAPTER I THE OLD CHINA TRADE
- CHAPTER II THE HONOURABLE COMPANY AND THE PRIVATE ENGLISH
- CHAPTER III THE CANTON COMMERCIAL SYSTEM
- CHAPTER IV THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CANTON TRADE TO 1834
- CHAPTER V OPIUM
- CHAPTER VI BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL ORGANISATION
- CHAPTER VII THE VICTORY OF THE FREE TRADERS
- CHAPTER VIII LEDGER AND SWORD
- APPENDICES
- I Tables
- II Jardine Matheson & CO.
- III The Hong Merchants
- Bibliography
- Index
III - The Hong Merchants
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Money, Weights and Abbreviations
- Author's Preface
- CHAPTER I THE OLD CHINA TRADE
- CHAPTER II THE HONOURABLE COMPANY AND THE PRIVATE ENGLISH
- CHAPTER III THE CANTON COMMERCIAL SYSTEM
- CHAPTER IV THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CANTON TRADE TO 1834
- CHAPTER V OPIUM
- CHAPTER VI BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL ORGANISATION
- CHAPTER VII THE VICTORY OF THE FREE TRADERS
- CHAPTER VIII LEDGER AND SWORD
- APPENDICES
- I Tables
- II Jardine Matheson & CO.
- III The Hong Merchants
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The following list, drawn from C. de Montigny, Manuel du négociant français en Chine, 1846, gives the full names of the Hongs in existence at the ratification of the Treaty of Nanking, 1843. It is doubtful whether the family names were correct.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1970