Hong Merchants of Canton Chinese Merchants in Sino-Western Trade

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.Cheong, Weng Eang is the author of 'Hong Merchants of Canton Chinese Merchants in Sino-Western Trade' with ISBN 9780700703616 and ISBN 0700703616.