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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... Macao , from which they were allowed to trade in designated seasons with the merchants from Guangzhou . Thereby a pattern was created in which traders from Fujian Province were al- lowed to sail overseas while Guangzhou was kept open ...
... Macao started to visit in the 1570s that it entered the annals of world history . The local feudal lord , Omura Sumitada , happened to be a Christian convert , and to make sure that the ships of Macao would continue calling , he made ...
... Macao , like the Chinese wife of the Dutch supercargo Hemmingson . She followed him from Batavia to China , ran his household in Macao , and eventually accompanied him to the Netherlands , where they settled down in The Hague . " That ...
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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 |