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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... continued to trade with the Zheng faction in Fujian . Pressed by the advancing Manchu troops , Zheng Chenggong crossed over from the Chinese mainland to Formosa in the spring of 1661 and , after an eight - month - long siege , dislodged ...
... continued to attach great importance to the comings and goings of Dutch and Chinese vessels because it was only by interrogat- ing their crews that they could gather information about the wider world . News was systematically collected ...
... continued to correspond with her mother in Japan . A penny for the thoughts of the Tanka women who used to ferry foreigners in Can- ton and sometimes provided them with some extra care under the tar- paulin of their sampan's cabin , or ...
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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 |