Asian port cities, 1600-1800
Subtitle: local and foreign cultural interactions
By: edited by Haneda Masashi.
Contributors: Haneda, Masashi.
Publisher: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9789971694630; 9784876987689
Subjects: Intercultural communication -- Asia -- History; Harbors -- Asia -- History -- 17th century; Harbors -- Asia -- History -- 18th century; Asia -- Civilization -- 17th century; Asia -- Civilization -- 18th century; Asia -- Civilization -- European influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Canton, Nagasaki and the port cities of the Indian Ocean, a comparison / Haneda Masashi; title: The legal position of foreigners in Nagasaki during the Edo Period / Matsui Yoko; title: The commercial culture of the VOC in Canton in the eighteenth century / Liu Yong; title: Western and Chinese influences on Japanese paintings in the eighteenth century / Ito Shiori; title: Jingdezhen and imari, communication and competition between Chinese and Japanese porcelains in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Liu Zhaohui; title: On the waterfront, life and labour around the Batavian roadstead / Leonard Blussé; title: Dutch interaction with Siamese law and the city rules of Ayutthaya in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Bhawan Ruangsilp; title: Cultural interaction between the British diaspora in Madras and the host community, 1650-1790 / Søren Mentz; title: The Hindu courtier and the French governor, Pondicherry, 1744-60 / Philippe Haudrère; title: The factories and facilities of the East India companies in Surat, locations, building characteristics and ownership / Nagashima Hiromu.