{"id":280,"date":"2013-01-25T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/?p=280"},"modified":"2013-02-22T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T18:33:18","slug":"augustine-heard-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Augustine Heard &#038; Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2013\/02\/58216_152793644873027_1431827288_n.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-281\" title=\"58216_152793644873027_1431827288_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2013\/02\/58216_152793644873027_1431827288_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2013\/02\/58216_152793644873027_1431827288_n.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2013\/02\/58216_152793644873027_1431827288_n-300x164.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvard Business School\u2019s Baker Library is now having a exhibition on Augustine Heard &amp; Co., one of the most respected and powerful U.S. trading houses in China in the mid-19th century. Here&#8217;s the accompanying website for those of you who cannot come to the exhibition in person.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.hbs.edu\/hc\/heard\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.library.hbs.edu\/hc\/heard\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The library also holds extensive records of American firms engaged in trade with and in nineteenth-century China, which offer rich professional and personal perspectives into early Sino-American relations, as well as insight into the complexities of the business lives of American traders in the treaty ports<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.hbs.edu\/hc\/heard\/manuscript-collections.html\">http:\/\/www.library.hbs.edu\/hc\/heard\/manuscript-collections.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Business School\u2019s Baker Library is now having a exhibition on Augustine Heard &amp; Co., one of the most respected and powerful U.S. trading houses in China in the mid-19th century. Here&#8217;s the accompanying website for those of you who cannot come to the exhibition in person. http:\/\/www.library.hbs.edu\/hc\/heard\/index.html The library also holds extensive records of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}