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Whampoa and the Canton Trade: Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700-1842

內容簡介

內容簡介 Paul A. Van Dyke’s new book, Whampoa and the Canton Trade: Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700–1842, authoritatively corrects misconceptions about how the Qing government treated foreigners when it controlled all trade in the Guangzhou port. Van Dyke reappraises the role of Whampoa in the system—a port twenty kilometres away from Guangzhou—and reassesses the government’s attitude towards foreigners, which was much more accommodating than previous research suggested. In fact, Van Dyke shows that foreigners were not bound by local laws and were given freedom of movement around Whampoa and Canton to the extent that they were treated with leniency even when found in off-limit places. Whampoa and the Canton Trade recounts the lives of seamen who travelled half-way around the globe at great risk and lived through a historic period that would become the framework for subsequent encounters between China and the rest of the world. Were it not for the exchanges between the major powers and the Qing empire, the world—as we know it—would be a rather different place. Hence, Van Dyke’s command of data mining shows that Whampoa was a key pillar in the Canton System and, thus, in the making of the modern world economy.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Paul A. Van DykePaul A. Van Dyke is professor of history at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, and author of Merchants of Canton and Macao: Success and Failure in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade (Hong Kong University Press, 2015).

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 本書糾正了關於中國清政府如何對待在廣州港進行貿易的外國人的錯誤認知，並揭示黃埔是廣州貿易的關鍵，也是現代世界經濟發展的重要支柱。

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