01111 a2200277 4500 1138971979 20250317100403.0 250312042015GB eng 9781138971974 Taylor & Francis GBP 43.99 BB 01 eng GTM thema 1F bisac GTB bic 1F bisac SOC008000 bisac SOC053000 bisac 327.51009021 bisac Weng Eang Cheong Hong Merchants of Canton Chinese Merchants in Sino-Western Trade, 1684-1798 1 Oxford Routledge 20151126 387 p This study eschews the uncritical acceptance of secondary sources that has characterized studies in this field, going back to and reinterpreting previously neglected primary sources, thereby enabling it to chart linkages between the European and Asian trades that have been regarded as parallel but unrelated (or at best competing) activities. In so doing, the work sheds new light on this crucial period. 1411 1411