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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... look at the Chinese maritime trade net- work to see how this transportation system developed into the driving force that created and continued to shape overseas Chinese settlements in Southeast Asia in early modern times . To do this we ...
... look like a heavenly gift of nature . My whole youth was engulfed by the stamping and hissing sound of steam engines driving piles into the soft ground on which the new buildings of Rotterdam arose . Unlike Nagasaki's citizens , who ...
... look less like oceangoing vessels than floating toasters in a Disney film . That is not to say that ports do not exist anymore ; like snakes shedding their skin , they have moved away from wharves near the city and closer to the sea ...
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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 |