Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the AmericansHarvard University Press, 31. mars 2008 - 147 sider The eighteenth century witnessed the rise of the China market and the changes that resulted in global consumption patterns, from opium smoking to tea drinking. In a valuable transnational perspective, Leonard Blussé chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through three key cities. Canton was the port of call for foreign merchants in the Qing empire. Nagasaki was the official port of Tokugawa Japan. Batavia served as the connection site between the Indian Ocean and China seas for ships of the Dutch East India Company. |
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... China Sea Basin , I will compare the radically different and at the same time curiously dovetailing maritime polities of the Qing empire , Tokugawa Japan , and the Dutch East India Company in the second half of the eighteenth century ...
... Ocean , the shallow , land - locked China Sea is basically an inner sea , or a " Chinese Mediter- ranean , ” as it has occasionally been called . ' The lower part , the South China Sea , comprising the whole region surrounded by the ...
... China Sea region , man - made factors influenced the patterns and rhythms of trade and set the China Sea region apart from the Indian Ocean . These included the particular institutional restraints that Chinese and Japanese imperial ...
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Three Windows of Opportunity | 1 |
Managing Trade across Cultures | 32 |
Bridging the Divide | 67 |
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Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans Leonard Blussé Begrenset visning - 2008 |
Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans Leonard Blussé Begrenset visning - 2008 |