International Conference:
PRIVATE MERCHANTS
OF THE
CHINA TRADE
1700 - 1842
Sponsored by Sun Yat-sen University
Research Center for Canton Port
& Department of History
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
----------------------------------------------------------Dates: 2013 November 15-17,
Venue: Guangzhou, China
Sun Yat-sen University
Department of History
Yong Fang Hall
2nd Floor
Organizers: Paul Van Dyke
, Jiang Yinghe
, Zhou Xiang
November 14 Thursday
Afternoon arrivals
18:30 Welcome Dinner (Zi Jing Yuan)
November 15 Friday
08:30-09:00 Reception Yong Fang Hall, 2nd Floor
09:00-09:05 Opening Words, Paul Van Dyke
09:05-09:15 Official Welcome, Vice President of Sun Yat-sen University
09:15-09:30 Photo Taking
09:30-10:10 Keynote Speech: John E. Wills, Jr. (professor emeritus, University of Southern
California) “The Private Eye in Old Canton: Questions and Agendas for
Discussion”
10:10-10:30 Tea/Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 Panel 1 Chair: Paul Van Dyke (Sun Yat-sen University)
1. “Philadelphia’s Nathan Dunn (1782-1844) as an Anti-Opium China Trader and SinoAmerican Cultural Intermediary” Jonathan Goldstein (University of West Georgia)
2. "Before and Beyond 1834: Robert Morrison and the End of the East India Company's
Monopoly in China" John M. Carroll (University of Hong Kong)
3. “‘A Man of Quick Perceptions’: Warren Delano II’s Career in the Old China Trade”
Thomas H. Cox (Sam Houston State University)
4. "Chinese Export Silk for the American Market in the 19th Century and the Female
Influence" Huang Man Man (University of Macau)
12:30-14:00 Lunch (box lunch in Yong Fang Tang, 2nd Floor)
14:00-16:00 Panel 2 Chair: Susan Schopp (University of Macau)
1. "Merchant-Mariners and the Private Commission Trade in Chinese Export Wares in
the First Half of the Eighteenth Century" Meike Fellinger (University of Warwick)
2. "Nineteenth Century Chinese Export Paintings in Dutch Collections – Theories on
Trajectories" Rosalien van der Poel (Leiden University)
3. "Fashioning a Global Brand: Houqua’s Portraits in the China Trade of the Early
Nineteenth Century" John D. Wong (University of Hong Kong)
4. “Trading with Traders --- The Wonders of Cantonese Shopkeepers”
Maria Mok (Hong Kong Museum of Art)
16:00-16:30 Tea/Coffee Break
16:30-16:50 Discuss Publication of Conference Volume
18:05 Meet in Lobby of Zi Jing Yuan Hotel and walk to restaurant (about 15 minutes)
18:30 Dinner (Kang Le Yuan)
November 16 Saturday
09:30-11:30 Panel 3 Chair: Steven Davies (University of Hong Kong)
1. "Maritime Trade and the Early Modern Chinese World Order”
Dong Wang (University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany)
2. "Silver, Missionaries, and Print: A Global Microhistory of Early Modern Networks of
Circulation and the Armenian Translation of Charles Rollin's History of Rome"
Sebouh Aslanian (University of California, Los Angeles)
3. "A Few Small Ships: Botany Baymen in China, 1788-1801" Gary L. Sturgess (New
South Wales Premier's ANZSOG Chair of Public Service Delivery at the University of
New South Wales, and based in Sydney Australia)
4. "Rooms for Rent: Inn Keepers and the foreignization of the Canton Factories 17601822" Paul Van Dyke (Sun Yat-sen University)
12:00-13:30 Lunch (box lunch in Yong Fang Tang, 2nd Floor)
13:30-15:00 Panel 4 Chair: Zhou Xiang (Sun Yat-sen University)
1. "British Private Traders and Their Clients in the Canton Debts Crisis, 1779-81"
Jessica Hanser (Yale-NUS College, Singapore)
2. "The Baring & Co. and the China Trade before 1834" Yu Po-Ching ("visiting scholar",
Institute of Natural Sciences History, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
3. “Counter-current: The move from private to public in the provision of British charts
and pilots in the China Seas” Stephen Davies (University of Hong Kong)
15:00-15:30 Tea/Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Panel 4 Chair: John Carroll (University of Hong Kong)
1. "The life and loves of Michael Grubb -- A Swedish trader in 18th century Canton and
Macao" Lisa Hellman (Stockholm University)
2. “Macao and Canton as seen through Russian-German eyes in 1805/6”
Frieder Sondermann (Tohoku Gakuin University in Sendai, Japan)
3. "The High Tide of French Private Trade at Canton, 1770-1785"
Susan Schopp (University of Macau)
17:10-17:30 Introduction to Sunday Tour: Foreign Cemetery and Whampoa Village. This will
be a brief summary of the places we will visit and their history.
18:00 Dinner (Zi Jing Yuan)
19:20 Meet in Lobby of Zi Jing Yuan Hotel. (Be sure to bring a sweater as it can be chilly on
the river, and don't forget your camera!)
19:30-20:00 Walk to North Gate Ferry Terminal
20.10-21.10 Pearl River Cruise
21:10 Walk back to Zi Jing Yuan Hotel
November 17 Sunday
09:45 Meet in Lobby of Zi Jing Yuan Hotel
10:00-10:45 Travel to Whampoa
10:45-11:45 Tour Foreign Cemetery
11:45-12:00 Travel
12:00-13:00 Lunch at Whampoa
13:00-13:20 Travel
13:20-15:30 Tour Whampoa Village
15:30-16:00 Travel back to Zhongda