Survey of the Ch'ing Archives on the Sino-Japanese Trade at Nagasaki During the 18th Century

FAIN: FT-13873-78

Noriko Kamachi
Regents of the University of Michigan (Dearborn, MI 48128-2406)

To survey the Ch'ing archives at the National Palace Museum in Taipei as a part of a study of the Sino-Japanese trade at Nagasaki and the Chinese community in the city during the 18th century. Previous Japanese scholarship on the China trade at Nagasaki suffered from limitation of source materials on the Chinese side of the trade. A survey of the newly-catalogued and accessible documents of original Ch'ing palace archives will fill the gaps of previous studies. PI will present a comprehensive account of the Nagasaki trade in order to document the pattern of economic relationship between China and Japan during the 18th century and the social and cultural impact of the China trade on Tokugawa Japan.