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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... allowed 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 ...
... allowed to stay in their factories only during the trading season . Once the ships had left , the supercargoes packed all their belongings and were off to nearby Macao , to enjoy the off season - February to the end of July — and take a ...
... allowed only ships from the Netherlands to enter Nagasaki Bay.63 Between 1797 and 1807 , the year of President Jefferson's embargo , eleven American ships called at Deshima.64 Many of the logbooks and cargo lists of these ships have ...
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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 |