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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... Policies toward Chinese 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 ...
... policies of the Ming court underscore this point . At first 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 ...
... policies toward the China trade ? When the Kangxi Emperor resorted to maritime prohibitions in 1717 , the sudden stop- ping of trade played havoc with the Batavian economy , and although Macao took up some of the slack and the traffic ...
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Three Windows of Opportunity | 1 |
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 |