British Trade and the Opening of China 1800–42

Michael Greenberg

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511896286

An account of the activities of British merchants in China in the crucial years before the Treaty of Nanking (1842), which transformed the relations between the Celestial Empire and the Western 'barbarians' and placed them upon a footing that was to last for 100 years. Mr Greenberg shows how this change was brought about by the pressures of the expanding British economy of the early nineteenth century. Much of the material is based on the papers of Jardine Matheson and Co., the only firm of pre-treaty days to survive, and the largest of the British firms then established in Canton.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Money, Weights and Abbreviations
pp vii-viii

Author's Preface
pp ix-xii

CHAPTER I - THE OLD CHINA TRADE
pp 1-17

CHAPTER II - THE HONOURABLE COMPANY AND THE PRIVATE ENGLISH
pp 18-40

CHAPTER III - THE CANTON COMMERCIAL SYSTEM
pp 41-74

CHAPTER IV - THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CANTON TRADE TO 1834
pp 75-103

CHAPTER V - OPIUM
pp 104-143

CHAPTER VI - BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL ORGANISATION
pp 144-174

CHAPTER VII - THE VICTORY OF THE FREE TRADERS
pp 175-195

CHAPTER VIII - LEDGER AND SWORD
pp 196-215

APPENDICES

I - Tables
pp 216-221

II - Jardine Matheson & CO.
pp 222-224

III - The Hong Merchants
pp 225-225

Bibliography
pp 226-232

Index
pp 233-238

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