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Overview of Harrisons, King & Irwin Limited Documents in the London Metropolitan Archives
Ken Tobe
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2023 Volume 2 Pages 1-14

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This paper provides an overview of the Harrisons, King & Irwin Limited documents in the London Metropolitan Archives. Harrisons, King & Irwin was an affiliate of Harrisons & Crosfield, a global corporate group in the United Kingdom. It was also China’s leading tea exporter from the 1920s to the 1940s. The author first briefly introduces the history of Harrisons, King & Irwin, then provides a brief overview of some of the contents in the Harrisons, King & Irwin Limited documents by theme, and finally discusses the significance of this series of documents for the study of the tea industry’s history in modern China and the world.
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© 2023 Keio University Faculty of Letters, Department of Asian History
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