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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... Doeff - shed light on the period that concerns us here . Their importance derives not as much from the decisive roles they played at the time ( although for nationalist reasons , Doeff turned out to be a cel- ebrated figure in his day ) ...
... Doeff came to play an important role . The first was the arrival in 1804 of the Russian envoy Count Nikolai Resanov as a follow - up to the earlier visit by Captain Laxman , who had returned Kodayu to Japan . Resanov came to Nagasaki to ...
... Doeff revised and rewrote the Dutch - Japanese dictionary , based on the original Dutch - French dictionary of François Halma . This great work , the Doyaku - Haruma ( Halma Translated by Doeff ) , was used by all rangakusha until the ...
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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 |