By J. Gregory
The West and China due to the fact that 1500 surveys Western family with and attitudes in the direction of China given that sustained touch and fascinating buying and selling started with the good substitute tradition within the 16th century. The reports of investors, diplomats and missionaries are surveyed and illustrated by way of widespread quotations from modern resources. furthermore the ebook explores the circulate of cultural impacts in either instructions, and alterations in Western opinion approximately China from favorite version, to disdained 'land of the everlasting standstill', to feared resurgent strength. eventually, the writer examines present concerns in dispute comparable to Taiwan and human rights.
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The next three chapters survey the main outlines of that story while offering interpretations and judgments that are certainly open to debate. But informed debate is the way to get beyond myths and stereotypes, comfortable though those may be. There are certainly plenty in the generally accepted story of the West's relations with China. Some of them are examined and tested in the following pages. 2 Coming Together, Rather Slowly and on China's Terms (1500±1800) The arrival of Europeans in Asian waters at the beginning of the sixteenth century was far from meaning that they quickly became a dominant force, controlling economies and establishing extensive colonial empires.
6 It became, before the growth of the opium trade, probably the biggest single commodity trade in the world. Many countries participated in this trade at Canton, with the English East India Company, a kind of early multi-national corporation, the dominant but by no means sole player on the Western side. By 1760 the Chinese decided it was time to define even more precisely the conditions under which they would allow this rapidly growing trade to continue. The Canton system of control A summary of the main features of this `Canton system of trade' is desirable here, both to provide some detail to illustrate the main proposition of this chapter, that is that the Chinese set the terms for these early relations with the seaborne Europeans, and to provide background for understanding some of the issues and outcomes to be looked at in the next chapter.
The sight of a foreign vessel of that size and power anchored in the river and overlooking the city, though it was something that later generations of Chinese would become familiar with, was very disturbing. 7 Adequate resupply facilities constituted an ongoing problem for large Western ships on long voyages, even for the steam ships of the next century, which needed regular coal depots if nothing else. This was one of the reasons why, just over a century later, another naval commodore from a newly emerged Western power, the USA, sailed into Tokyo bay in 1853 to the great discomfort and alarm of the Japanese.