The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking : The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933.

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.