With Hong Kong being part of the British Empire until 1997, Canton (now known as Guangzhou) was the only city opened by the Chinese to trade with the West. Trade was conducted during the bi-annual Canton Trade Fair, where western and Asian traders met with their Chinese counterparts in order to trade metals,minerals, raw materials, and whatever other goods mainland China needed to buy or sell.
The Chinese, under Emperor Zhu Di, built a huge fleet of massive (for the time) treasure ships and sent them around the known world to trade.
They did all they could to hamper trade with the western world. The Chinese considered themselves quite superior to the outside world and had no use for any of the western goods.Despite the success of early trading expeditions, Ming emperors chose to return to relative isolation because they did not value commerce highly and believed that the voyages yielded little benefit to China.They felt it unnecessary. }:)
Marco Polo's goal was to make trade with the Chinese and to bring back goods
maybe at that time they where best knoledged to the compass so they had the best transportation route.
The Ming period of isolationism was bad for China, because there was bad trade, and the Chinese failed to keep up with the rest of the world . :(
peking
Canton
the middle men
The port cities of Burma, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Ummm...
The compass as this allowed greater trade options not just for the Chinese but the world in general
The compass as this allowed greater trade options not just for the Chinese but the world in general
they wanted to limit the contact with the outside world
With Hong Kong being part of the British Empire until 1997, Canton (now known as Guangzhou) was the only city opened by the Chinese to trade with the West. Trade was conducted during the bi-annual Canton Trade Fair, where western and Asian traders met with their Chinese counterparts in order to trade metals,minerals, raw materials, and whatever other goods mainland China needed to buy or sell.
Canton
With Hong Kong being part of the British Empire until 1997, Canton (now known as Guangzhou) was the only city opened by the Chinese to trade with the West. Trade was conducted during the bi-annual Canton Trade Fair, where western and Asian traders met with their Chinese counterparts in order to trade metals,minerals, raw materials, and whatever other goods mainland China needed to buy or sell.
Contacts between ancient world civilizations with China are well known to have existed. Alexandria Eschate was an Indo-Greek settlement to the border of the Chinese frontier. A Roman emissary was also reportedly received by Chinese Emperor in 166 AD.