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

by Leonard Blussa(c) and Leonard Blussé

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"