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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... Official Mind China's seaside border and its overseas connections have been studied by historians mainly from the viewpoint of the " official mind " of the Chinese imperial administration . John King Fairbank's work on the tribute ...
... officials supportive of the Nanyang trade and those opposed to it . One participant in the debate pointed out that the Chinese who had been massacred had been ignoring the emperor's order to return home and therefore deserved to be ...
... official , through whom all communication with the port authorities had to be directed . Indeed , as Van Dyke has ... officials , often Manchus , ensured that they themselves would reap the most from this profitable position and were ...
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Managing Trade across Cultures | 32 |
Bridging the Divide | 67 |
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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 |