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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... River at quite a distance from the mouth of the estuary . This walled city , nick- named tianzinanku , the “ southern treasury of the Son of Heaven , " had already served as a major port for foreign shipping for a millennium be- fore ...
... River was chockablock with barges , tugboats , ferry- boats , coasters , cargo liners , and tramp steamers , to say nothing of the stately passenger liners of the Holland - America Line , which docked in the middle of the city . All of ...
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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 |