HIST 3810 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Canton System
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Chinese emperors knew a lot about the southeast region. Consumed babies: 1lbs of gold= one baby. Dealing with barbarians: northwest-lifanyuan, or office of border affairs (mongols, zunghars, russians) Russia trade to china through mongolia: europeans/missionaries- imperial household. Escorted groups of jesuits who represented the pope. All missionary activities had to be approved by the imperial household: south- ministry of rites. Dealt with courtiers bordering china from the south. All regulated by the ministry of rights. Bordering countries were expected to recognize china"s prestige. All goods not sold were forced to go back. Tributary system: can be seen as the only working model used in chinese history, each country was allowed to send a certain number of tributary missions a year. Korea was expected to be the most frequent in having missions: imperial place in hue, vietnam. A nation that was never left alone.
