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名称 Visible cities : Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the coming of the Americans
索引号 C912.81/E20091
分类号 C912.81
C912.81(城市社会学)
C912.8(地区社会学)
C912(社会结构和社会关系)
C91(社会学)
C(社会科学总论)
作者 Blussé、 Leonard、 1946--、
出版社 Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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页数 xi, 133 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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注解 "The Edwin O. Reischauer lectures, 2006"--P. [i]. 附註 Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-128) and index. 摘要 "The eighteenth century witnessed the rise of the China market and changes in global consumption patterns, from tea drinking in the West to opium smoking in China. In an innovative, transnational perspective, Leonard Blusse chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in maritime East Asia through three legendary harbor cities. Canton was the designated port for foreign merchants in the Qing empire. Nagasaki functioned as the window on the world for Tokugawa Japan; and Batavia served as the Dutch East India Company's emporium connecting trade between the Indian Ocean and the China seas." "The effects of global change in the Age of Revolution were wrenching. The once powerful East India companies suffered challenges from indigenous pirates, Anglo-Indian traders, and American newcomers. Yet when the French invasion of Holland severed Dutch trading links with East Asia, Yankee traders bailed out the Dutch, until Jefferson's 1807 Embargo Act also halted American shipping." "On the near horizon was a new kind of multicultural port city, more attuned to the shifting global trading network. With the establishment of the free port of Singapore and the rise of the treaty ports - Hong Kong, Shanghai, Yokohama - the nature of the China seas trade changed forever."--BOOK JACKET.