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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... Portuguese mer- chants to set up a trading beach on a small peninsula in the estuary of the Pearl River , at Macao , from which they were allowed to trade in designated seasons with the merchants from Guangzhou . Thereby a pattern was ...
... Portuguese to gain part of Ja- pan's foreign trade , the Calvinist Dutch only too gladly played up the Japanese ... Portuguese . The fervent wish of the Dutch to replace the Portuguese in the profitable China - Japan trade was fulfilled ...
... Portuguese ships from 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 ...
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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 |