Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

America's China trade in historical perspective : the Chinese and American performance / edited by Ernest R. May and John K. Fairbank.

Contributor(s): Series: Harvard studies in American-East Asian relations ; 11.Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Committee on American-East Asian Relations of the Dept. of History in collaboration with the Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1986.Description: xvii, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674030753
  • 9780674030756
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: America's China trade in historical perspective.DDC classification:
  • 382/.0973/051 19
LOC classification:
  • HF3128 .A62 1986
Contents:
Introduction: Patterns and problems / John K. Fairbank -- Chinese teas to America: a synposis / Yen-P'ing Hao -- The boom years of the Fukien tea trade, 1842-1888 / Robert P. Gardella --The silk export trade and economic modernization in China and Japan / Lillian M. Li -- The Chinese-American cotton-textile trade, 1830-1930 / Kang Chao -- The East Asian "textile cluster" trade, 1868-1973: a comparative-advantage interpretation / Bruce L. Reynolds -- Commercial penetration and economic imperialism in China: an American cigarette company's entrance into the market / Sherman Cochran -- The United States petroleum trade with China, 1876-1949 / Chu-Yuan Cheng -- The minor significance of commercial relations between the United States and China, 1850-1931 / Peter Schran -- The impacts of American multinational enterprise on American-Chinese economic relations, 1786-1949 / Mira Wilkins.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Bibliography: p. [343]-374.

Includes index.

Introduction: Patterns and problems / John K. Fairbank -- Chinese teas to America: a synposis / Yen-P'ing Hao -- The boom years of the Fukien tea trade, 1842-1888 / Robert P. Gardella --The silk export trade and economic modernization in China and Japan / Lillian M. Li -- The Chinese-American cotton-textile trade, 1830-1930 / Kang Chao -- The East Asian "textile cluster" trade, 1868-1973: a comparative-advantage interpretation / Bruce L. Reynolds -- Commercial penetration and economic imperialism in China: an American cigarette company's entrance into the market / Sherman Cochran -- The United States petroleum trade with China, 1876-1949 / Chu-Yuan Cheng -- The minor significance of commercial relations between the United States and China, 1850-1931 / Peter Schran -- The impacts of American multinational enterprise on American-Chinese economic relations, 1786-1949 / Mira Wilkins.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.