The Taipans: Hong Kong's Merchant Princes (Oxford Paperbacks) | 
| Author: Colin N. Crisswell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1784265
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 292
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0195853733
EAN: 9780195853735
ASIN: 0195853733
Publication Date: October 17, 1991
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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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