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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... administration and Chinese entrepreneurs in Monsoon Asia during the Ming and Qing periods . Contrary to European expansion overseas , the Chinese flag did not follow the trade , and as a result the importance of this creeping overseas ...
... administration , had intervened in an effort to con- trol the prices of imported silk through the pancado or itowappu system ( see below ) , the city made the dramatic decision in 1698 to take the ad- ministration of all its trade ...
... administration strove to reduce Japan's dependence on foreign trade . It did so by taking some extraordinary monetary measures , first by forbidding the export of sil- ver , then by depreciating the gold content of the koban coin to ...
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Three Windows of Opportunity | 1 |
Managing Trade across Cultures | 32 |
Bridging the Divide | 67 |
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Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans Leonard Blussé Begrenset visning - 2008 |