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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... situated within the tropics , while the upper section , the North or East China Sea , surrounded by China , Korea , Japan , and the Ryukyu Archipelago , tends to have a more rugged climate . In the old days of sail , all traffic in the ...
... situated themselves along the Dongyang , or eastern route , by establishing their headquarters in Manila in 1571 , and they gave a further boost to the existing traffic by importing South Ameri- can silver to the Philippines for the ...
... situated on the rim of the same seascape , but they functioned very differently within the states of which they were part . There was something particular to each of these emporiums that should be pointed out before we look at them in ...
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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 |