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. |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-3 av 16
... Ming dynasty was estab- lished in 1367 after more than a century of Mongol domination . To gain full control over the border and do away with the Islamic traders at the coast who , during the pax Mongolica , had basically run China's ...
... Ming dynasty . The widely divergent policies of the Ming court underscore this point . At first overseas private trade was strictly forbidden , in order for the rulers to keep control over their own subjects and , of course , to ensure ...
... Ming court , which had fled to the south . Thanks to the huge profits that could still be reaped from overseas trade , he was able to recruit sufficient military strength to hold out against the Qing troops . Zheng Chenggong's main ...
Innhold
Three Windows of Opportunity | 1 |
Managing Trade across Cultures | 32 |
Bridging the Divide | 67 |
Opphavsrett | |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
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 |