RT Journal Article
T1 The economic "micro-cosmos" of Canton as a global entrepôt: Overseas trade, consumption and the Canton System from the Kangxi to Qianlong eras (1683-1795)
A1 Jin, Lei
A1 Pérez García, Manuel
K1 Global History
K1 Economic history
K1 Canton System
K1 Commodity exchange
K1 China
K1 Europe
K1 Qing dynasty
K1 Proyecto GECEM
AB Due to China's ongoing economic rise, recent studies in global (economic) history have moved away from the traditional Eurocentric view to a Sinocentric one. There is extensive literature focused on the introduction of Chinese goods to Europe, as well as on China's economic development within the framework of the great divergence debate. However, less research has centred on the introduction of European goods to Chinese markets, specifically the markets in Guangdong or other coastal regions (such as Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangsu), before the First Opium War. This paper aims to side-step the Sinocentric approach, eschewing the current wave of national history in China, by analysing the international trade in Qing China from the Kangxi era until the Qianlong period. It provides new empirical evidence from the First Historical Archives of China (FHAC) by examining the impact on global trade of China's imperial edicts and interventionist policies.
PB Taylor&Francis / Routledge
SN 1478-8810
YR 2021
FD 2021-08-19
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/11741
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/11741
LA en
NO Atlantic Studies
NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, www.gecem.eu.
NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO
DS RIO
RD May 8, 2026