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Global History with Chinese Characteristics Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680-1796

Publication year: 2021

ISBN: 978-981-15-7865-6

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This book examines perceptions and dialogues between China and Europe by analysing strategic geopolitical sites which fostered commerce, consumption and socioeconomic networks between China and Europe through a particular case study: Macau, connecting with South China, and Marseille in Mediterranean Europe from 1680 to 1800


Subject: History, History of China, History of Early Modern Europe, Economic History, Socioeconomic networks between China and Europe, bilateral Sino‐European trade relations, trans‐national communities of Macau and Marseille, Foreign merchant networks and the Silk Road, Trade and European and Chinese socio‐cultural habits, Polycentric approaches to the 18th century Silk Road, Strategic sites of commerce and consumption