...In 1805, the British East India Company's director, W. S. Davidson, founded the Canton Insurance Society, the first English-owned insurer in China, with two English trading firms: Davidson-Dent House, the forerunner of Dent & Co., and Magniac & Company, which became Jardine, Matheson...

...France was a key participant in the Canton Trade, although she has not received sufficient attention in its scholarship. Early to enter the trade, she continued, with occasional interruptions, to the end of the Canton System in 1842, and her vessels made over 265 voyages to China. The French model...

...Journalists and foreign correspondents try to reflect often complex events in faraway lands in a way their readers can hopefully understand. This was especially true of the old China press corps that started in the Canton Factories of the opium-dealers in the 1820s and reached its high point, both...

...Figure 4.1a A Detail of a Map of Canton, Macao, and Hong Kong. Circa 1848. E. Belcher. Coloured Engraving. Hong Kong Museum of Art (AH1967.0015). Figure 4.1b A Detail of a Sketch Map of the Pearl River and the City of Canton. 1847. Lieut. Martin. Lithograph. Hong Kong Museum of Art...

... customs houses factory No 15 before it was joined with No 14 in 1815 Schopp Susan Thirteen Factories Chinese export art Trading houses Treaty Ports Era Co-hong Foreign Quarter China Guangzhou Canton From 1760 to February 1771, the foreign trade was administered by a regulatory body...

... it was joined with No 15 in 1815 factory No 16 Dutch France factory No 11 Temple Newsam Leeds Museum and Galleries factory No 05 Thirteen Factories Chinese export art Trading houses Treaty Ports Era Co-hong Foreign Quarter China Guangzhou Canton In the early 1780s, some of the Europeans were...

...Chapter 7 covers the years from 1800 to 1814. This was the period when American entrepreneurs began taking over parts of the factories and also when the French briefly returned to Canton. Americans British Britain English Dorr Sullivan façade No 07 factory No 07 French Megee William Fairchild...

...Chapter 9 is a bit different from all the other chapters. It is a discussion of the establishment of the shopping streets in the foreigner quarter. The Conclusion summarizes the main issues raised in the book and discusses what the scenes of the factories can tell us about the history of Canton...

...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...

...The history of foreign journalists in China starts with the newspapers printed in the European Factories of Canton in the 1820s and ends with the Communist revolution in 1949. It also starts with a duel between two editors over China's future and ends with a fistfight in Shanghai over...

... between Portuguese Macao and the provincial capital, Guangzhou (Canton). Tracing the obscure origins of Sino-British diplomatic and commercial relations back to the late Ming era, Jackson examines the first episodes of interaction, exchange, and collision in the 17th century. His definitive narrative...

...Until now, the role of private traders in the Canton Trade has been largely overlooked. History books of the twentieth century say little about them, mostly because their narrative has often been drowned out by the business activities and complaints of the large companies, by discussions of opium...

...In 1949, shortly after the Communists took over the reins of mainland China, Frances Wong went back to Guangzhou (or Canton), the capital of south China, from the British colony of Hong Kong. At that time, communications between Guangzhou and Hong Kong were disrupted because the Kowloon-Canton...

... Huaishengsi Guangta 懷聖寺光塔 Red Fort Hong Paotai 紅炮台 West Fort Xi Paotai 西炮台 White Cloud Mountains Baiyun Shan 白雲山 Guangcai ware 廣彩 Jingdezhen walkway in front of the factories Thirteen Factories Chinese export art Trading houses Treaty Ports Era Co-hong Foreign Quarter China Guangzhou Canton...

... Foreign Quarter China Guangzhou Canton Christiaan Jörg has pointed out that some armorial ware, made to Dutch order, were found with unthinkable mistakes, such as names misspelled or mistaken coats of arms. ¹ Figures F5a–b , for instance, show a dish dated 1720–1725 and bearing...

...Chapter 8 covers the years from 1815 to the fire of November 1822 when all of the factories burned down. This was the period when the British rebuilt their factories and when the Danes returned to Canton. bell tower British Britain English Dutch façade No 07 factory No 01 Danish factory...

... by the Mandarinate, they could not provide the British with all the protection they wanted in Macau. In 1715, having gained increasing independence to pose demands, the EIC supercargoes built a factory in the suburbs of Canton, this was an important step for the “Canton System”, which the British used to resist...

..., and Leslie Year Paid into Canton Treasury by Whom To Whom Payable in England Amount Paid 1772 George Smith and John Crichton John Secker Esq., John Wilson, Robert Palk Esq., Gen. Richard Smith and Charles Boddam £6,000 (approx.) 1777 George Smith Mr. Alex Crawford...

...Private memoirs are among the most descriptive documents we have of individual experiences in Canton. While subjective in nature, these European eyewitness accounts offer a diversity of views and of information regarding Canton. The five individuals considered in this chapter—Robert Pitt...

... trade as inappropriate, he showed that it was possible to succeed in the Canton Trade without dealing in opium. Dunn was also a dedicated educator of Chinese culture. He seems to have found his life’s purpose in bringing an understanding of China to English-speaking audiences. Unlike virtually all...