The Taipans: Hong Kong's Merchant PrincesOxford University Press, 1991 - 249 Seiten 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. |
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agency Alexander Matheson Anglo-Chinese arrived became Belilios Bell-Irving boat bought Britain British merchants brother building businessmen Butterfield and Swire C.N. Company Calcutta Canton capital Captain cent century chairman chants Chater chests China coast Chinese Chinese authorities Chinese officials clippers Co-Hong coastal trade Colonial Office Company's consul country traders cricket David Sassoon Dent Dent's Dumfriesshire East India Company Elliot England established European expatriate export factories firm Foreign Office godowns Governor Happy Valley Hennessy Hong Kong Club Hong Kong Land Hongkong and Shanghai interests J. S. Swire James Matheson Jardine and Matheson Jardine's Kadoorie Kong's Kowloon later Legislative Council London Macau million monopoly Napier opened opium trade Palmerston pany Parsee Pottinger Princely Hong profit race retired Russell's sail Second Anglo-Chinese War Shanghai Bank Shewan ships smuggling steamship taipans tion trade with China Treaty of Nanking treaty ports Whampoa William Jardine William Keswick wrote Yangtse