Kaori Abe

Broschiertes Buch

Chinese Middlemen in Hong Kong's Colonial Economy, 1830-1890

Beschreibung

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the compradors and their economic and social functions over the full period of colonial rule in Hong Kong. It puts forward a different view, demonstrating that the compradors were active participants, not just passive servants of foriegn companies.

Autor

Kaori Abe is a former postdoctoral fellow of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and has a PhD in History from the University of Bristol. Her main research areas are the history of Hong Kong, modern China and the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780367878078
• ISBN-10: 0367878070
• Artikelnr.: 58441217