In this Book
- The British Presence in Macau, 1635–1793
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
summary
For more than four centuries, Macau was the center of Portuguese trade and culture on the South China Coast. Until the founding of Hong Kong and the opening of other ports in the 1840s, it was also the main gateway to China for independent British merchants and their only place of permanent residence. Drawing extensively on Portuguese as well as British sources, The British Presence in Macau traces Anglo- Portuguese relations in South China from the first arrival of English trading ships in the 1630s to the establishment of factories at Canton, the beginnings of the opium trade, and the Macartney Embassy of 1793. Longstanding allies in the west, the British and Portuguese pursued more complex relations in the east, as trading interests clashed under a Chinese imperial system and as the British increasingly asserted their power
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. xi-xii
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- 7. The visit of the Centurion
- pp. 83-86
- 9. The “scramble for the use of Macau”
- pp. 97-104
- 10. “Guests and old allies”
- pp. 105-116
- Conclusion
- pp. 131-134
- Bibliography
- pp. 179-200
Additional Information
ISBN
9789882208445
Related ISBN(s)
9789888139798
MARC Record
OCLC
852472875
Pages
200
Launched on MUSE
2013-06-30
Language
English
Open Access
No