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Negotiating Friendships - A Canton Merchant Between East and West in the Early 19th Century (Hardcover)
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Negotiating Friendships - A Canton Merchant Between East and West in the Early 19th Century (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Readings in Global Intellectual History
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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 lived in isolated Qing
China, gives us an outstanding answer. Despite various barriers in
cultures, languages, political situations and his identity as a
Chinese merchant strictly under control of the Qing government,
Houqua established a commercial network across three continents:
Asia, North America and Europe. This book will not only uncover his
secrets and actions in his Chinese social network especially
patronage relationships in traditional Chinese society, but also
reconstruct his intercultural network, including his unique and
even "modern" friendship with some American traders which lasted
almost half a century after Houquas death.
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