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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... country traders entered the South China Sea region selling opium , weapons , and Indian textiles wherever they could ... traders on the periph- ery now turned toward the meeting points of the country traders and the buashang network of ...
... trade , even though the character of the Western presence in the region was chang- ing . While company monopolies were giving way to the private enter- prise of country traders and the newly arrived Americans , the Canton system itself ...
... country traders , pirates , and smugglers threw into question all prior power relations without really replacing them . It is probably safe to say that we cannot speak of the birth of a new era in maritime trade until a new type of port ...
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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 |