The Commercial Law Affecting Chinese; With Special Reference to Partnership, Registration, and Bankruptcy Laws in Hongkong: Reprinted from the China (Classic Reprint) baixar o livro de graça

Excerpt from The Commercial Law Affecting Chinese; With Special Reference to Partnership, Registration, and Bankruptcy Laws in Hongkong: Reprinted From the China We remarked above that Chinese mer chants and tradesmen naturally brought with them to Hongkong the trade ia stincts and habits of China and quietly transplanted to English soil, unhindered, their national institutions of guilds and and trades unions. We must add new that they not merely brought with them their national system of em ploying middlemen for all mercantile operations, but successfully compelled, in the quietest possible manner, even foreign merchants to employ middlemen likewise. These middlemen have be come known, on the Chinese side, in the commercial intercourse between Chi nese and foreigners, under the hybrid name Macheen (a Chinese corruption of the, to them unpronounceable, term Merchant) as the designation of the representatives of Chinese firms dealing with foreigners, and on the European side, under the name Compradore (a term borrowed from the Portuguese language) as the Chinese representative servants of foreign firms dealing with Chinese. Now it is important to note that the Chinese middleman or broker, as represented by the Macheen of Hong kong, has a different position here from that which he occupies in China. In China he is simply a broker, responsible at every moment to a paternal but cruel government, and occupies a position analogous, in some respects, to that of a sworn broker of London, but liable to criminal proceedings, involving corporal punishment, even for acts coming under that vague and doubtful category of encouraging unfair trade, which makes his position one of extreme personal risk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.