商品簡介
The world economy had come to a crisis point. China was suffering a major political and dynastic change. Japan closed its doors to contact with the west. It remained for the Vietnamese kingdom of Tonkin to supply silk to the European market, and it took advantage of the situation to become the major exporter in East Asia. Hoang (history, Vietnam National U.) relies on a wealth of primary documents never used before in his account of trade between Tonkin's maritime traders and the Dutch East India Company, tracing the seemingly endless shifts in policies and practices on both sides and explaining the contexts behind business and political decisions during this crucial era in trade and foreign relations. Some of the most interesting material describes the impact of trade on the people who practiced it and what happened when the attempted to get more control of products and markets. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Hoang Anh Tuan (1976) obtained his MA in Maritime Archaeology at Vietnam National University, Hanoi in 2001, and received his doctorate in History at Leiden University in 2006. He is a lecturer at the Department of History, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, where he teaches Vietnamese economic history and Asian-European encounters in the early modern period.
