Boundaries-Prelims.indd
382 Boundaries and Beyond From the viewpoint of the trade value, in a single voyage every 500 ton junk could carry an amount of ...
Expanding Possibilities 383 arrived from China. The number increased to βive in 1822, six in 1823, seven in 1824, seven again in ...
384 Boundaries and Beyond peddlers. The former might invest in the more expensive cargoes such as cassia, camphor, nankeen and r ...
Expanding Possibilities 385 of Hainan. The smaller junks from Hainan were estimated at 150 tons each, making all in all around 8 ...
386 Boundaries and Beyond straits-crossing trade with Taiwan was “very considerable indeed”, as John Bowring put it.^139 In Cant ...
Expanding Possibilities 387 between the island and Jiangmen or Canton allowed the junks to make several voyages annually.^144 Th ...
388 Boundaries and Beyond majority of these vessels were owned by those who had their residence in Shanghai or the neighboring p ...
Expanding Possibilities 389 from there. One reason for the imbalance of trade was an increasingly large amount of opium being sh ...
390 Boundaries and Beyond more often carried on a coasting trade. Although their trade involved mostly coarse produce, its aggre ...
Expanding Possibilities 391 The Beginning of the End? As this essay has shown, the decades up to the early 1840s represent a tim ...
392 Boundaries and Beyond still engaged in the junk trade, but their main interest was in conducting voyages to Vietnam and Siam ...
Expanding Possibilities 393 put the overall capital of the Canton junk trade at between 14,000,000 and 18,800,000 dollars.^165 W ...
394 Boundaries and Beyond minor ports in the vicinity. Eventually, these shipping irregularities even threatened the survival of ...
Expanding Possibilities 395 During the prosperous years, the government impositions were considered tolerable, and might even be ...
396 Boundaries and Beyond Amoy merchants had made their fortunes in the extended shipping networks or business operations outsid ...
Expanding Possibilities 397 foreign vessels that offered greater protection. Fourthly, the Shanghai Daotai (Circuit Intendant), ...
398 Boundaries and Beyond The deteriorating native shipping on the China coast provided an opportunity for the British vessels t ...
Expanding Possibilities 399 linkage between the Treaty Ports and the non-Treaty Ports. These were the spheres that western shipp ...
400 Boundaries and Beyond the Fu Chao Hang in Canton, had “always continued [to be] a wealthy class”.^186 As shown in a declarat ...
Expanding Possibilities 401 In a nutshell, the power of sustainability and adaptability greatly enabled Chinese junk traders to ...
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