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 Blusse 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.
The effects of global change were wrenching. The monopolies
suffered challenges, trade corridors shifted, and new players
appeared. Yankee traders in their fast clipper ships made great
inroads. As Dutch control declined, Batavia lost its premier
position. Nagasaki became a shadow of its former self. Canton,
however, surged to become the foremost port of East Asia. But on
the horizon were new kinds of port cities, not controlled from
above and more attuned to the needs of the overseas 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, and relations between East Asia and
the West, changed forever.
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