TY - BOOK TI - Merchants of Canton and Macao: Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade AU - Dyke, Paul A. Van AB - Paul Van Dyke works in many languages and archives to uncover the history of Peark River trade. This two-volume work is likely to be the most definitive reference work on the major trading families of Guangzhou. Organized as a series of family studies, this first volume includes exhaustive profiles of nine of the dominant hongs and their founding patriarchs for which good information survives: Tan Suqua, Tan Hunqua, Cai and Qiu, Beaukeequa, Yan, Mandarin Quiqua, Ye and Tacqua Amoy, Zhang, and Liang. DA - 2011/10/01/ PY - 2011 DP - Google Books SP - 674 LA - en PB - Hong Kong University Press SN - 978-988-8028-91-7 ST - Merchants of Canton and Macao KW - Chinese Business History KW - History / Asia / China ER -