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Riverside Cemetery Corporation, Fairhaven: Trustee. |
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Social Law Library, Boston: Trustee 1994-1998. |
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Massachusetts Historical Society: Former member of the Council, and the Finance Committee and the Research Committee. |
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Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University: Associate in Research. |
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Author, The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933 (Studies in the History of Private Law, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Brill, Netherlands, 2014).
Brill Publishing Order Page, Hardbound
Online Edition (Brill Online Books and Journals)
@History-Brill Publishing (Facebook) |
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Editor: China Deposit Insurance Observer, 2015- |
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Author, Introduction to the republication of Jacques M. Downs The Golden Ghetto: The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy (Hong Kong University Press, 2014). |
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The Angry Politics of the Era of the Founding of the Social Law Library, 80 Mass. Law Review 160 (December 1995). |
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Benjamin Austin, Jr.'s Struggle with the Lawyers, Boston Bar Journal (Volume 25, No. 8) (September 1981). |
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The Court Martial of Paul Revere, Boston Bar Journal (Volume 21, No. 5) (May 1977). |
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The Failure of the Li-ch'uan Hong: Litigation as a Hazard of Nineteenth Century Foreign Trade, American Neptune (Volume 48, No. 4) (Fall 1988). |
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The Failure of the Li-ch'uan Hong: Litigation as a Hazard of Nineteenth Century Foreign Trade, (in Chinese), Shi Lin (Historical Review) (Institute of History, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences) (2004, No. 4, Serial No. 79). |
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Hong Merchant Litigation in the American Courts, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1987). |
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Merchants, Lawyers, and the China Trade of Boston, Boston Bar Journal (Volume 23, No. 8) (September 1979).
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Observations on the Pernicious Practice of the Law, 68 American Bar Association Journal 580 (May 1982).
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With Geoffrey C. Ward, A Fair, Honorable and Legitimate Trade, American Heritage (Volume 37, No. 5) (August/September 1986).
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Author, The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933 (Ph.D. Dissertation, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2012). |
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Author, The April 1820 Debt Settlement between Conseequa and Benjamin Chew Wilcocks, pages 73-94 in Paul A. Van Dyke, ed., Americans and Macao: Trade, Smuggling and Diplomacy on the South China Coast (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012). |
 
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| Author, Franklin Roosevelt's Maritime Heritage, pages 57-68 in Mário Mesquita and Paula Vicente, eds., O Mar na História, na Estratégia e na Ciência (“The Sea in History, Strategy and Science”) (Lisbon: Tinta-da-China, 2013). | |
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Author, book review of Rivalry in Canton: The Control of Russell and Co. 1838-1840 and the Founding of Augustine Heard and Co. 1840, by Tim Sturgis. Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 50 (2010). |
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Author, The Wings of a Butterfly: Private Creditor Strategies in the 'Chinese Debts' Crisis of 1779-1780, in Piere Gervais, Yannick Lemarchand and Dominique Margairaz, eds., Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680-1830 (London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers Ltd., forthcoming) (publication expected 2014). |
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| Dr. Grant in the News: |
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How Chinese banking can profit from a borrowed idea of old Canton: Andrew Sheng discerns lessons about the importance of strong supervision of risk-taking (South China Morning Post, January 19, 2013) |
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Languages Spoken: English, French, Chinese (some)
Born: Boston, Massachusetts, July 16, 1954
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