The Dutch East India Company's tea trade with China, 1757-1781

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The Dutch East India Company's tea trade with China, 1757-1781

by Yong Liu

(TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction, v. 6)

Brill, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-270) and index

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This case study of the tea trade of the Dutch East India Company with China deals with the most profitable phase of the Dutch Company's China trade, focusing on the question why and how the tea trade was taken out of the hands of the High Government in Batavia and put under the supervision of the newly established China Committee in 1757. Various factors which contributed to the phenomenal rise of this trade and its sudden decline are dealt with in detail. Filling in lacunae left open by previous research and this monograph contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the VOC trade with Asia.

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