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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 fortunesfrom 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 merchantsgrew 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.
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The Taipans: Hong Kong's Merchant Princes, Crisswell, Colin N.
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1991
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- Titolo
- The Taipans: Hong Kong's Merchant Princes
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Crisswell, Colin N.
- Editore
- Oxford University Press
- Pubblicato
- 1991
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 260
- ISBN10
- 0195853733
- ISBN13
- 9780195853735
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Storia
- Valutazione
- 2,85 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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 fortunesfrom 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 merchantsgrew 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.