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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... Overseas Trade In two pioneering articles written fifty years ago , the Chinese historian T'ien Ju - k'ang ( Tian Rukang ) was the first to draw attention to the im- portance of the Chinese junk trade with Southeast Asia during the sev ...
... overseas private trade was strictly forbidden , in order for the rulers to keep control over their own subjects and , of course , to ensure that only the throne reaped the profits of foreign trade , and only at designated gateways . In ...
... foreign trade , whereas the do- main of the coastal trade of China was reserved for " merchant firms , ” or shanghang . The yanghang were supervised by security merchants who were responsible for every ocean - going junk sailing to the ...
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Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans Leonard Blussé Begrenset visning - 2008 |