摘要
一前言婺源与徽州府的其他县份各自位在黄山余脉大障山的两侧,大障山即是鄱阳湖水系之乐安江与钱塘江水系之新安江的分水岭。婺源县独居一侧,因此现在被划人江西省。但在明清时期,婺源实为安徽省徽州府的一个属县。婺源是个多山的县,民间有＂八分半山一分田,半分水路和庄园＂的说法。
This paper deals with a green-tea merchant, by the name＂ Tianxing＂,of Wuyuan, Anhui in late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tianxing＇s family supplied the East India Company high-quality green teas for more than seventy years, through the hands of the Canton Hong merchants. The merchant in question is the grandson of the founder of the firm.He himself had stood in that business for more than fifty years at the time of his failure. Biography of merchants and history of trading firms are generally difficult to avail, but Tianxing＇s case gives use a vivid rare sample. By intensively exploring the archives kept in the British Library and the National Archives, London, this paper elaborately reconstructs the story of Tianxing＇s insolvency and also provides interpretations for it. In order to look into the issue in depth, background knowledge, like the ways of tea manufacturing, transportation, and distribution,etc., is duly included in the narration.
出处
《海洋史研究》
CSSCI
2017年第1期393-434,共42页
Studies of Maritime History
关键词
婺源县
绿茶
钱塘江水系
贸易
广州
周转
明清时期
分水岭
Tianxing
green tea
Singlo
chop
tea-dealer
tea inspector
the East India Company
debt composition
