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The Taipans: Hong Kong's Merchant Princes
The Taipans Hong Kong's Merchant Princes
Author: Colin N. Crisswell
The Taipans is a popular account of Hong Kong's merchant princes from the origins of the first trading houses in eighteenth-century Canton and Macau to the beginning of the First World War. The early taipans, hard-headed business men from Britain, the USA, and India, built up immense fortunes from the opium trade. In the 1830s a single company...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195853735
ISBN-10: 0195853733
Publication Date: 10/17/1991
Pages: 312
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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