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302 Boundaries and Beyond Taiwan in 1683, Amoy expanded its coastal and overseas trade at an even faster pace. In Amoy, hang mer ...
Liturgical Services and Business Fortunes 303 On account of their wealth and commercial expertise, the hang merchants were also ...
304 Boundaries and Beyond Taipei.^44 Through such activities, the temple also promoted community organizations, fostered self-go ...
Liturgical Services and Business Fortunes 305 The shipping connections of the wholesale dealers in rice and sugar enabled them t ...
306 Boundaries and Beyond merchant behavior, maintaining a sound commercial reputation and unity within the same trade group and ...
Liturgical Services and Business Fortunes 307 authorities were able to convert this informal branch of administration into an ef ...
308 Boundaries and Beyond huge proβits from selling tea and textiles to their British counterparts,^53 and they were the envy of ...
Liturgical Services and Business Fortunes 309 In Amoy, the hang merchants faced severe competition from non- authorized βirms. A ...
310 Boundaries and Beyond cargo and for the most part their ocean-going junks had to be loaded with such low-value goods as eart ...
Liturgical Services and Business Fortunes 311 shippers began to βind the ofβicial assignments insupportable owing to the downtur ...
312 Boundaries and Beyond and the EIC found it necessary to provide them with advances to prevent bankruptcies and bolster the m ...
Liturgical Services and Business Fortunes 313 million pounds.^73 Around 1800, “about 75% of China’s monetary exchange (in terms ...
314 Boundaries and Beyond In the case of Amoy, the claim of the high-ranking authorities that th e subscriptions to the public f ...
Liturgical Services and Business Fortunes 315 relationships with the scholar-gentry and the ofβicials under the cloak of Confuci ...
316 ĈčĆĕęĊė 11 The Amoy Riots of 1852: Coolie Emigration and Sino-British Relations Introduction Large-scale shipments of Chines ...
The Amoy Riots of 1852 317 work Yen Ch’ing-hwang reconβirmed the conventional image of Chinese ofβicials as being timid and self ...
318 Boundaries and Beyond de Bourbon (Réunion), Australia, the Sandwich Islands, Batanhas in the Philippines, California and Per ...
The Amoy Riots of 1852 319 This explains the rather frequent mutinies among the Chinese passengers during their voyages. One suc ...
320 Boundaries and Beyond law “unfortunately precludes any effectual interference with transactions of this kind”.^11 The Britis ...
The Amoy Riots of 1852 321 lamented, “the authority possessed or exercised by the Consuls had been wholly inoperative to check s ...
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