Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans

(Part of the The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures Series)

by Leonard Blussa(c) and Leonard Blussé

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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 Bluss 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674026144

ISBN13:9780674026148

Release Date:March 2008

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:148 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Related Subjects

20th Century Asia Business & Finance China Economics Geography History Indonesia International International Business Japan Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Regional

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Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans

(Part of the The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures Series)

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