Hong Kong University Press Van Dyke, P: The Canton Trade - Life and Enterprise on the C

New in PaperbackThis is an impressive piece of scholarship, rich in new data and filled with new insights. Its publication will prove important to scholars of late imperial China and economic history. The former will learn a revisionist perspective on the Canton system that shows how the court largely adapted to the evolving conditions in Canton in the eighteenth century. The latter will learn much about the mechanics of international trade in an era preceding European dominance. -R. Bin Wong, University of California, Los Angele