Asian port cities, 1600-1800 : local and foreign cultural interactions / edited by Haneda Masashi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haneda, Masashi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harbors.

History.

Intercultural communication.

Civilization.

Asia--Civilization--17th century.

Asia.

Asia--Civilization--18th century.

Asia--Civilization--European influences.

Intercultural communication--Asia--History.

Harbors--Asia--History--17th century.

Harbors--Asia--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

xvi, 233 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, [2009]

Summary:

Asian port cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the site of intensive cultural contact involving a broad spectrum of participants from across the world. These interactions raised questions of communication for merchants who conducted business in the port cities and of regulation and control for the officials who governed them.

By drawing comparisons among the port cities of East, Southeast and South Asia where European East India Companies maintained trading centers, this volume goes beyond national histories to examine cultural interactions on a regional basis. The authors draw on the rich literature relating to cross-cultural interactions between the Dutch and the Japanese in Nagasaki in discussing issues that range from architecture, mercantile and artistic communication, business transactions and dispute settlement to family issues, clothing, housing, and social relations associated with food. Their work yields intriguing new interpretations of the Asian maritime world that will interest historians concerned with Europe or Asia during the early modern period, as well as students of material culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Canton, Nagasaki and the port cities of the Indian Ocean, a comparison / Haneda Masashi

The legal position of foreigners in Nagasaki during the Edo Period / Matsui Yoko

The commercial culture of the VOC in Canton in the eighteenth century / Liu Yong

Western and Chinese influences on Japanese paintings in the eighteenth century / Ito Shiori

Jingdezhen and imari, communication and competition between Chinese and Japanese porcelains in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Liu Zhaohui

On the waterfront, life and labour around the Batavian roadstead / Leonard Blussé

Dutch interaction with Siamese law and the city rules of Ayutthaya in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Bhawan Ruangsilp

Cultural interaction between the British diaspora in Madras and the host community, 1650-1790 / Søren Mentz

The Hindu courtier and the French governor, Pondicherry, 1744-60 / Philippe Haudrère

The factories and facilities of the East India companies in Surat, locations, building characteristics and ownership / Nagashima Hiromu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789971694630

9971694638

9784876987689

4876987688

OCLC:

301110102