Chinese Merchants in Sino-Western Trade, 1684-1798 Weng Eang Cheong creator Oxford Routledge 20151126 1 g eng 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. 9781138971974 Taylor & Francis 01 250312 20250317100403.0 1138971979