Visible Cities : Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans / Leonard BLUSSE, Leonard Blussé.

The eighteenth century witnessed the rise of the China market and the changes that resulted in global consumption patterns, from opium smoking to tea drinking. In a valuable transnational perspective, Blussé chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through three key cities-Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia.