"The Ships"
featuring
- The China Trade -
"Of all the different trades,- in which a seaman can be engaged-,the most interesting and by far the most rewarding, is for sure the Far East trade".
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Chinese Junks
This is the sight that the
first European exploreres and traders
must have seen when they approached
the China coast - - -
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
The first westeners that opened trade with China were the Portuguese, which set up a base in Macau in 1557 and thereby became the first Europeans to settle on the China coast.
Of course my pictures
shown here, are not from the sixteenth century, but actually photographed
outside Tsingtao in 1973!
However,- it could just as
well have been from 1557, since the Chinese junk has not changed
appeareance for centuries.
When I sailed on the
China Coast, this was a very common sight way into the first half
of the seventies.
As a matter of fact we could
sometimes count 30 - 40 junks around us,- and none of them had engines,
and they came in all sizes,- even with four masts.
Chinese Junk
- outside Tsingtao, China,
1973 -
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
Click here for many more pictures
of "Chinese Junks"
Click for more about the
China trade:
1) As seen from
My China Room
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