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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... shogunal court in Edo to buttress trade rela- tions , the answer was clear . The shogunal authorities felt there was no need : " Why should their ambassador come to express gratitude for the fact that the Dutch Company's merchants live ...
... shogunal regime of Japan , which governed some 250 daimyo according to a policy of divide et impera ; and the Manchu empire of the Qing , which , with a small warrior class and a collaborating Chinese literati- elite , ruled 300 million ...
... shogunal administration strove to reduce Japan's dependence on foreign trade . It did so by taking some extraordinary monetary measures , first by forbidding the export of sil- ver , then by depreciating the gold content of the koban ...
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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 |