Abstract
The “treaty port” system in nineteenth century East Asia has been understood through the twin dichotomies of Asian-Western and state-to-state worlds. Through a re-examination of the commodity trade and silver movement records of two treaty ports in southern Taiwan (Taiwan-foo and Takow), with particular reference to their relationships with China’s treaty port, Amoy (Xiamen), this paper finds that the dichotomy perspective on East Asian history fails to understand the multiple layers of relationships created by trade and finance. It suggests that the treaty port system in southern Taiwan functioned as a unique framework for change in the nineteenth century.
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