Negotiating Friendships : : A Canton Merchant Between East and West in the Early 19th Century /

Negotiating Friendships : : A Canton Merchant Between East and West in the Early 19th Century / / Shuo Wang.

Social network are nowadays inherent parts of our lives and highly developed communication technique helps us maintain our relationships. But how did it work in the early 19th century, in a time without cell phones and internet? A Chinese Hong Merchant in Canton Trade named Houqua (1769–1843), who l...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Wang, Shuo ,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Critical Readings in Global Intellectual History , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XV, 303 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue & Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Historical milieu
  • 3. Houqua in his Chinese circles
  • 4. Houqua with his foreign friends and acquaintances
  • 5. Résumé
  • 6. Epilogue: How open was China?
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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