摘要
1815年,广州：巴斯人、印度人、亚美尼亚人、马来人、摩尔人或者土耳其人、阿拉伯人和一些犹太人——所有这些人借助于大型港脚船从印度各地群聚于此……巴斯人——一个外貌特征非常独特的族群——或成群结队聚在一起,或成双成对走在一起。其他亚洲人出于需要戴着帽子——像巴斯人那样裹着长头巾——混杂到巴斯人当中,他们随船抵达广州从事其贸易时,都会去巴斯人的商行。
Many studies have been written about the China trade in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, most of which focus on the European East India companies and Sino-European relations. These interactions were of utmost importance in understanding the trade and are well-deserving of the great attention. they have commanded with many books and articles on the subject.However, hidden beneath many of these exchanges is another story which is equally deserving of our attention—that private individuals within Asia were actually sponsoring and financing many of the voyages to China. Owing to few private records surviving, it was not until recently, when new data emerged, that we have been unable to show these inter-Asian connections. This study is about the many ambiguous faces of the Canton trade, including Moors, Greeks,Armenians, Parsees, Jews and Southeast Asians, all of whom, at one time or another, were involved in the trade and in underwriting voyages to China. They tell another side of the story, which shows that our understanding of SinoEuropean trade and relations is much more complicated that what we previously thought.
出处
《海洋史研究》
CSSCI
2017年第1期435-458,共24页
Studies of Maritime History
关键词
亚美尼亚
犹太人
广州
摩尔
贸易
希腊人
东南亚
模糊
Canton Trade
Private Asian Traders
Private Ships
Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century
