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.
  • ISBN10 9004155996
  • ISBN13 9789004155992
  • Publish Date 28 December 2006 (first published 1 December 2006)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill