[Asia_news] upcoming seminar:The Swedish East India Company in Canton and South East Asia trade, 1731-1813

[Li Tana]

The Swedish East India Company in Canton and South East Asia trade,
1731-1813
Leos Müller, Professor of History, Centre for Maritime Studies,
Stockholm University, Sweden


Venue: Seminar Room C, Coombs Building
Time: 12 - 1:30 pm, Tuesday, 16th Oct 2012

Abstract:

The Swedish East India Company is one of the small chartered companies
that took part in the trade between Europe and Asia--indeed one of the
less known companies. This company had neither colony nor trading 
station in Asia. It was, in reality, active only in the trade with 
Canton, with one of two ships annually and a couple of officers on board 
or in Canton and Macao. However, the Swedish Company played and 
important role in the Canton trade. Due to Sweden’s neutrality in the 
Anglo-French wars after 1756 the Swedish Company was one of three or 
four big actors in tea trade from Canton. The seminar will present the 
company’s activities in Canton and the way in which the company’s 
supercargoes entered the Canton and Asian commodity and credit markets 
in the 1760s and 1770s.

Leos Müller, Professor of History, Centre for Maritime Studies,
Stockholm University. His works include Consuls, Corsairs, and commerce. 
The Swedish Consular Service and Long-distance Shipping, 1720-1815 
(Uppsala 2004) and The Merchant Houses of Stockholm, c. 1640-1800. A 
Comparative Study of Early-modern Behaviour (Uppsala 1998). He has 
published broadly on the history Swedish early modern trade and 
shipping, entrepreneurial behaviour, merchant networks, Swedish East 
India Company and trade in tea. Currently, he is working on the project 
of Sweden’s eighteenth-century neutrality and economics of shipping.

All welcome.


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