00076791

Business History

Business History

Routledge

Routledge

2015

57(8)

Dirt of whitewashing: re-conceptualising debtors’ obligations in Chinese business by transplanting bankruptcy law to early British Hong Kong (1860s-1880s)

Michael Ng

NG, Michael

English insolvency and bankruptcy law / Debtors’ obligations in Chinese society / Transplanting English bankruptcy law in Hong Kong in 1864 / Rise in Chinese bankruptcy cases in the late nineteenth century / ‘Chinese commercial morality’as perceived by the foreign community / The dirt of whitewashing / Unusual consensus among Chinese and European merchants / Conclusion.

英語 / English

第四部[東洋経済史]4-13.政治・法制

4 Oriental & African Economic History 4-13. Politics & Law

  • 第四部 [東洋経済史] 4-6. 企業・組合・経営・会計
  • 第五部 [西洋経済史] 5-13. 政治・法制
  • 4 Oriental & African Economic History 4-6. Business, Management, Account & Union
  • 5 European & American Economic History 5-13. Politics & Law
  • アジア・アフリカ
  • Asia and Africa
  • 法制・政治・軍事
  • Law, Politics & Military