Taipans. Hong Kong's merchant princes
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- Author(s) Crisswell, Colin N
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1981
- Pages 250pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Hong Kong
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- Country England
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Deals with the history of Hong Kong's Taipans and their community from their origins at Canton and in Hong Kong from the early 19th century to the early 20th century. Structured in four parts: 1] 'A most gentlemanly speculation' - 'Early days in Canton' / 'The princely Hong and the end of the Canton system'; 2] 'Between the two wars' [ie mid 19th century] - 'Anglo Chinese relations' / 'Trade with China' / 'Hong Kong affairs' / 'Hong Kong business and social life'; 3] 'Old and new China hands' - 'The old China hands' / 'The Sassoons' / 'Banking' / 'Taikoo'; 4] 'Hong Kong - the old order changeth' - 'Civic affairs' / 'Business and social affairs'. Touches in particular on Butterfield & Swire, Jardine Matheson & Co, Dent & Co, David Sassoon & Co, E D Sassoon & Co