Dutch East India Company's Tea Trade With China, 1757-1781

This case study of the tea trade of the Dutch East India Company with China deals with its most profitable phase, when a direct shipping link was established between Canton and the Dutch Republic in the second half of the eighteenth century. It focuses on the questions why and how the tea trade was taken out of the hands of the High Government in Batavia in 1757 and put under the supervision of the newly established China Committee in Amsterdam, and explains in detail what factors contributed to the phenomenal rise of this trade and its sudden decline in the 1780s. Book jacket.Liu, Yong is the author of 'Dutch East India Company's Tea Trade With China, 1757-1781 ', published 2006 under ISBN 9789004155992 and ISBN 9004155996.