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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... authorities from the beginning to the end was not the foreigners themselves but the way in which foreigners might be taken advan- tage of by their own subjects and as a result create problems along the border . It was not until the ...
... authorities.15 Rather telling was the halfhearted reaction at the Chinese court when the emperor received an apologetic letter from Batavia in which the Dutch authorities informed him that they had deemed it necessary “ to render a true ...
... authorities with whom Laxman had met . During Resanov's one - year stay in Nagasaki , the Russian made all kinds of trouble over ritual and etiquette , refusing to stand up when Japanese officials came to see him or to store his hand ...
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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 |