The Golden Ghetto

The Golden GhettoBefore the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city's most important foreign communities the Americans during the decades between the American Revolution of 1776 and the signing of the Sino US Treaty of Wanghia in 1844. American merchants lived in isolation from Chinese society in sybaritic, albeit usually

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