Papers of Old Shanghai: Business, Banking, and Insurance

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.