Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India by Andrew B. Liu

Lourdusamy, John Bosco

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“…Ball worked for the EIC as tea inspector and was based in Canton during the first decades of the nineteenth century. 67 He situates the centre of the tea trade with Canton in Whey-chew-fu (Huizhou): "The green tea connected with the foreign markets is grown in the southern part of the province of Kiang-nan, in the district of Whey-chew-fu." 68 Based on what Ball called "personal observations" made between 1804 to 1826, his comment allows us to bring the British desire for Chinese goods another step closer to the agency of the Huizhou tea producers and merchants.…”

Section: The Ten-thousand-mile Cloud-route (Wanli Yuncheng)mentioning

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Reading Late-Imperial Chinese Merchant Handbooks in Global and Micro-History

Gerritsen

2023

J. Early Mod. Hist.

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In late imperial China, handbooks were key tools for merchants who negotiated the challenges of the land and water routes along which they traveled with their goods. Such handbooks provided invaluable information. The knowledge contained within such itineraries pertained to the minutiae of individual places, but it helped create and maintain the global connectedness of the late imperial empire. Porcelain and tea, produced in the inland provinces of southeast China, could be delivered safely to the port of Canton, and from there to consumers all over the world because these merchants had created, preserved, and transmitted this knowledge. The micro-global lens, thus, is a key tool for understanding such merchant handbooks: it makes it possible to see how micro-level knowledge sustained the agency of the merchants who shaped the global trading world surrounding Canton. Reading late-imperial merchant handbooks from Huizhou makes visible the connections between Huizhou and the wider world.

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Section: The Ten-thousand-mile Cloud-route (Wanli Yuncheng)mentioning

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Reading Late-Imperial Chinese Merchant Handbooks in Global and Micro-History

Gerritsen

2023

J. Early Mod. Hist.

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Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India by Andrew B. Liu

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Reading Late-Imperial Chinese Merchant Handbooks in Global and Micro-History

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