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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... Southern Song and Yuan dynasties to its total prohibition during the Ming dynasty . The widely divergent policies of the Ming court underscore this point . At first overseas private trade was strictly forbidden , in order for the rulers ...
... southern ports , such as Guang- zhou in the south , Shantou on the border between Fujian and Guang- dong Province , and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province to the north , joined in the stampede to the Nanyang . The massive trade expansion to ...
... Southern Treasury of the Emperor The port city of Canton was situated on the banks of the Pearl River at quite a distance from the mouth of the estuary . This walled city , nick- named tianzinanku , the “ southern treasury of the Son of ...
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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 |