Western Sources of the China Trade from the 18^th and Early 19^th Century
Western Sources of the China Trade from the 18^th and Early 19^th Century出 版 物：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》 (复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2011年第4卷第2期
页 面：45-60页
学科分类：081505[工学-港口、海岸及近海工程] 0839[工学-网络空间安全] 08[工学] 0815[工学-水利工程] 0824[工学-船舶与海洋工程] 0814[工学-土木工程] 082401[工学-船舶与海洋结构物设计制造] 081201[工学-计算机系统结构] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）]
主 题：China trade travel voyage Eurpope United States
摘 要：Merchants from many countries went to China to trade in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, including Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, Flemish, Armenians, Muslims, Parsees, Dutch, Danish, Austrians, Italians, and Americans. Many of these travelers kept detailed records of their encounters with China. Their documents can be very helpful in unraveling parts of the history that are silent in Chinese sources. These records can be divided into three basic groups, those of： East India companies, private traders, and private travelers. East India companies kept massive volumes of records and tended to be very systematic in the type of information they recorded from one year to the next. Private trade records were much less sophisticated than those of the companies, and often consisted of miscellaneous bundles of receipts, reports, letters, contracts, and journals. Private travel records were written by persons who sailed on merchant ships but were not necessarily merchants themselves. They recorded what they saw and heard along the way, which is information that often does appear in other records. Taken as a whole, company records, private trade records and private travel journals add much detail to the history of China that cannot be found in Chinese language sources.
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