Chinese Merchants in Sino-Western Trade, 1684-1798
by
Weng Eang Cheong
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This study eschews the uncritical acceptance of secondary sources that has characterized studies in this field, going back to and reinterpreting previously neglected primary sources, thereby enabling it to chart linkages between the European and Asian trades that have been regarded as parallel but...