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Negotiating Friendships : A Canton Merchant Between East and West in the Early 19th Century / Shuo Wang.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Readings in Global Intellectual History ; 3Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (XV, 303 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110625851
  • 9783110625998
  • 9783110629644
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 381/.11092 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue & Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical milieu -- 3. Houqua in his Chinese circles -- 4. Houqua with his foreign friends and acquaintances -- 5. Résumé -- 6. Epilogue: How open was China? -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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 Houqua´s death.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue & Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical milieu -- 3. Houqua in his Chinese circles -- 4. Houqua with his foreign friends and acquaintances -- 5. Résumé -- 6. Epilogue: How open was China? -- Bibliography -- Index

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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 Houqua´s death.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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