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Author Grant, Frederick Delano, Jr.

Title The Chinese cornerstone of modern banking : the Canton guaranty system and the origins of bank deposit insurance 1780-1933 / by Frederick Delano Grant, Jr
Published Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 360 pages)
Series Legal history library ; v. 14
Legal history library. Studies in the history of private law, 1874-1793 ; v. 6
Studies in the history of private law ; v. 6
Legal history library ; v. 14.
Legal history library. Studies in the history of private law ; v. 6.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Tables and Charts; Note on Spelling; Glossary; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1 Subject and Framework; 2 Previous Research; 3 The 1829 Crisis in the State of New York; 4 The Crisis in the Chinese Port of Canton: 1829; 5 The 1829 Crises as Prologue; Chapter 2 Sources of the Canton Guaranty System; 1 Conquest and Pacification; 2 The Organization of Merchants Engaged in Maritime Trade; 3 Official Roots of Collective Responsibility; 4 Collective Responsibility in Chinese Tradition; Chapter 3 Evolution of the Canton Guaranty System
1 Official Management of Maritime Foreign Trade2 The Security Merchant System and Origins of Collective Responsibility; 3 The Formal Regulation of Maritime Foreign Trade; 4 Debt Collection Under the Canton System; 5 The 1780 Crisis and Imposition of the Collective Guaranty; Chapter 4 The Fund is Drained, 1780-1799; 1 The Hong Merchants, 1780-1799; 2 The Demands of Government, 1780-1799; 3 Trading Conditions, 1780-1799; 4 The Collective Guaranty of Debt, 1780-1799; Chapter 5 Three Plagues: War, Piracy and Litigation, 1800-1814; 1 The Hong Merchants, 1800-1814
2 The Demands of Government, 1800-18143 Trading Conditions, 1800-1814; 4 The Collective Guaranty of Debt, 1800-1814; 5 The Abortive 1810 Receivership of Gnewqua II and Ponqua; 6 The 1813 Receivership of the Junior Hong Merchants; Chapter 6 Years of Rebound and Opium, 1815-1828; 1 The Hong Merchants, 1815-1828; 2 The Demands of Government, 1815-1828; 3 Trading Conditions, 1815-1828; 4 The Experience of Conseequa, 1796-1823; 5 The Collective Guaranty of Debt, 1815-1828; Chapter 7 The Last Years of the Canton System, 1829-1842; 1 The Hong Merchants, 1829-1842; 2 Trading Conditions, 1829-1842
3 The Collective Guaranty of Debt, 1829-1842Chapter 8 From Safety Fund to Bank Deposit Insurance; 1 Joshua Forman; 2 The Power of Suggestion; 3 The Banking Crisis in the State of New York; 4 The 1829 New York Safety Fund Statute; 5 Early State Bank Guaranty Programs; 6 Implementation of National Deposit Insurance in the United States; Chapter 9 Eighty Years of Bank Deposit Insurance; 1 Federal Deposit Insurance in the United States; 2 The International Progress of Bank Deposit Insurance; Chapter 10 Epilogue; Appendix 1 The Original Five Regulations (1760)
Appendix 2 The Original Five Regulations (1760)Appendix 3 The Eight Regulations (1831); Appendix 4 The Eight Regulations (1835); Appendix 5 The Eight Regulations (Per W.C. Hunter); Bibliography; Index
Summary The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933, by Frederic Delano Grant, Jr., details the evolution of modern deposit insurance from collective responsibility for debt enforced under the Canton System
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Deposit insurance -- China -- Guangzhou -- History
Suretyship and guaranty -- China -- Guangzhou -- History
Banks and banking -- China -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Risk Assessment & Management.
Banks and banking
Deposit insurance
Suretyship and guaranty
China.
Banks.
Bank guarantee.
Banking law.
International trade.
Economic history.
History.
China
China -- Guangzhou
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004276567
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