简述英国威克菲尔德对华贸易构想

A Brief Account of E.G. Wakefield's Idea on Trade with China

在对华贸易 (实为走私贸易 )上 ,威克菲尔德鼓励英国、美国和其他国家的走私者在中国沿海岛屿建立若干商站 ,条件是“市场自由 ,即在完全平等的条件下对所有国家开放”。他还有多边贸易的构想。“假定便宜的粮食系英国在澳大利亚的诸殖民地生产 ,那里虽然远离英国 ,但距中国近。英国人可用制品购买此等粮食 ;用此等粮食购买中国人的茶叶和白银 ;用这些茶叶和白银购买加拿大人的便宜谷物”。

On Chinese trade (really smuggling trade),Wakefield encouraged English,America n and other countries' smugglers to establish some commercial stations on the co astal islands of China,provided that “the market-place was free,that is,open to all nations on perfectly equal terms.” He also had an idea of multi-sided tr a de “supposing that cheap food were raised in the English colonies of Australia, which,though far from England,are near to China,the English might buy such fo od with manufactured goods; with that food buy tea and silver of the Chinese; an d with that tea and silver buy cheap com of the Canadians.” This was much compl i cated than using English manufactured goods to exchange for tea and silver from the Chinese directly. In this model,China,as one side of the four sides,had b een put on the same status as British colonies.