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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... followed that number increased sharply . When in 1587 Omura Sumitada passed away , Toyotomi Hideyo- shi , the warlord who would soon unify Japan , took possession of the town and promulgated his first anti - Christian laws . Jesuit ...
... followed him from Batavia to China , ran his household in Macao , and eventually accompanied him to the Netherlands , where they settled down in The Hague . " That possibility did not exist for the female companions of the Dutch on ...
... followed , the two of them were able to restore everything to order . When Wardenaar went home in 1803 , he transferred his responsibilities on Deshima to Doeff . No Dutch VOC ships had reached the island since 1795 , but every year one ...
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Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans Leonard Blussé Begrenset visning - 2008 |