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Before the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city's most important foreign communities--the Americans--during the decades between the American Revolution of 1776 and the signing of the Sino-US Treaty of Wanghia in 1844. American merchants lived in isolation from Chinese society in sybaritic, albeit usually celibate luxury. Making use of exhaustive research, Downs provides an especially clear explanation of the Canton commercial setting generally and of the role of American merchants. Many of these men made fortunes and returned home to become important figures in the rapidly developing United States. The book devotes particular attention to the biographical details of the principal American traders, the leading American firms, and their operations in Canton and the United States. Opium smuggling receives especial emphasis, as does the important topic of early diplomatic relations between the United States and China.

Merchants --- Americans --- Businesspeople --- Yankees --- Ethnology --- History. --- China --- United States --- Guangzhou (China) --- Yang-chʻeng (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Kanton (China) --- Wu-yang chʻeng (China) --- Hui-chʻeng (China) --- Kuang-chou (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Kwangchow (China) --- Canton (China) --- Kwangju (China) --- Guang zhou (China) --- Kouang-chou (China) --- Quảng Châu (China) --- Shengcheng (China) --- Puyün (China) --- Pʼan-yü (Guangzgou Shi, China) --- Kwang-chowfu (China) --- Fan-yü (China) --- Kuang-chou-shih (China) --- Guangzhoushi (China) --- 广州 (China) --- Foreign economic relations --- Commerce --- History --- E-books

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"Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies"--

Africans --- Transnationalism --- Guangzhou (China) --- Ethnic relations. --- Ethnology --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Yang-chʻeng (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Kanton (China) --- Wu-yang chʻeng (China) --- Hui-chʻeng (China) --- Kuang-chou (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Kwangchow (China) --- Canton (China) --- Kwangju (China) --- Guang zhou (China) --- Kouang-chou (China) --- Quảng Châu (China) --- Shengcheng (China) --- Puyün (China) --- Pʼan-yü (Guangzgou Shi, China) --- Kwang-chowfu (China) --- Fan-yü (China) --- Kuang-chou-shih (China) --- Guangzhoushi (China) --- 广州 (China) --- E-books

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S10/0251 --- S03/0635 --- S11/0470 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: since 1989 --- China: Geography, description and travel--Guangzhou (incl. Foreign Settlements) --- China: Social sciences--Cities: since 1949 --- Mixed economy --- Economy, Mixed --- Third way (Economics) --- Capitalism --- Socialism --- Guangzhou (China) --- Yang-chʻeng (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Kanton (China) --- Wu-yang chʻeng (China) --- Hui-chʻeng (China) --- Kuang-chou (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Kwangchow (China) --- Canton (China) --- Kwangju (China) --- Guang zhou (China) --- Kouang-chou (China) --- Quảng Châu (China) --- Shengcheng (China) --- Puyün (China) --- Pʼan-yü (Guangzgou Shi, China) --- Kwang-chowfu (China) --- Fan-yü (China) --- Kuang-chou-shih (China) --- Guangzhoushi (China) --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- 广州 (China)

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Hundreds of Chinese export paintings of Canton trading houses and shopping streets are in museums and private collections throughout the world, and scholars of art and history have often questioned the reliability of these historical paintings. In this illustrated volume, Paul Van Dyke and Maria Mok examine these Chinese export paintings by matching the changes in the images with new historical data collected from various archives. Many factory paintings are reliable historical records in their own right and can be dated to a single year. Dating images with such precision was not possible in the past owing to insufficient information on the scenes. The new findings in this volume provide unprecedented opportunities to re-date many art works and prove that images of the Canton factories painted on canvas by Chinese artists are far more trustworthy than what scholars have believed in the past.

Merchants in art. --- China trade art. --- Chinese export art --- Export art, Chinese --- Guangzhou Shi (China) --- Guangzhou (China : Municipality) --- Kuang-chou shih jen min cheng fu (China) --- Kuang-chou shih (China) --- In art. --- Painting, Chinese --- Factories in art. --- Guangzhou (China) --- Commerce --- History --- Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (Group of painters) --- Yang-chʻeng (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Kanton (China) --- Wu-yang chʻeng (China) --- Hui-chʻeng (China) --- Kuang-chou (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Kwangchow (China) --- Canton (China) --- Kwangju (China) --- Guang zhou (China) --- Kouang-chou (China) --- Quảng Châu (China) --- Shengcheng (China) --- Puyün (China) --- Pʼan-yü (Guangzgou Shi, China) --- Kwang-chowfu (China) --- Fan-yü (China) --- Kuang-chou-shih (China) --- Guangzhoushi (China) --- 广州 (China)

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In 1933, the German architect and China scholar Ernst Boerschmann visited the cities of Hong Kong, Macau and Canton (Guangzhou) and documented their transformation into functionally divided major cities. Boerschmann's unpublished descriptions of a radical change in the structure of a city still have resonance 80 years later, and many of his observations can be seen once more in today's construction boom in the cities of the Pearl River delta.

Boerschmann, Ernst, --- Boshiman, Ensite, --- Travel --- Hong Kong (China) --- Macau (China) --- Guangzhou (China) --- Yang-chʻeng (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Kanton (China) --- Wu-yang chʻeng (China) --- Hui-chʻeng (China) --- Kuang-chou (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Kwangchow (China) --- Canton (China) --- Kwangju (China) --- Guang zhou (China) --- Kouang-chou (China) --- Quảng Châu (China) --- Shengcheng (China) --- Puyün (China) --- Pʼan-yü (Guangzgou Shi, China) --- Kwang-chowfu (China) --- Fan-yü (China) --- Kuang-chou-shih (China) --- Guangzhoushi (China) --- 广州 (China) --- Macau (Macau) --- Macao (China) --- Ao-men (China) --- Aomen (China) --- Cidade de Macau (China) --- 澳门 (China) --- Description and travel.