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 Trade

2 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, 1800–1814

3 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, 1829–1842

Chapter 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