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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... tons ) for the Dutch and twice that amount for the Chinese . Thus Japan's total copper exports were re- duced to 2,700 tons . In 1790 the Kansei reforms curtailed the trade even further , to a yearly quota of one Dutch ship and seven ...
... tons of tea a year were being shipped to Europe by all European East India Companies operating in Canton . When ten years later this amount had more than doubled to 5,500 tons , the first signs of market saturation became visible . The ...
... ton , although they certainly succeeded in destabilizing the traffic in the coastal waters . But would it not be wonderful to hear Chinese huashang tell their tales ? And what about female voices ? In the contemporary sources men ...
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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 |