Merchants of Canton and Macao – Success and Failure in Eighteenth–Century Chinese Trade

Paul A. Van Dyke is an historian and author of The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845 (2005). He has spent many years researching various aspects of life, trade, and societies in the Pearl River Delta and Maritime Asia.

Paul A. Van Dyke's Merchants of Canton and Macao is an invaluable addition to our knowledge of Sino-Western trade in the eighteenth century. The level of detail is outstanding, amassed from a rich source base in multiple languages. And from that data base Van Dyke brings the financial actors in this complex commercial story vividly to life. -- Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China