Papers of Old Shanghai: Business, Banking, and Insurance, 1874–1949 (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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Includes reports covering wholesale, retail, export & import market prices compiled by the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, National Tariff Commission, and Bank of China; beautifully illustrated guidebooks, handbooks, and directories promoting the international settlement and Greater China to international visitors and tourists; reports, analyses, and handbooks on China’s nascent stock markets, financial problems, major Chinese and foreign banks based in Shanghai, tables for currency conversion, manuals on insurance and assurance premiums and tariff; and other documents relating to the status and conditions of foreign and Chinese firms, and foreigners in China.


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