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TbeContentd List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements x Foreword XI SECTION ONE 1. Macao and the Setting 1 Macao - Politics - Climate - The season - Whampoa - Lintin and the outer anchorages 2. The Company and the China Trade 7 The Company - Supercargoes - East Indiamen - Cargoes and sycee - The country trade - Privilege trading Opium - Procedure - Traders and the mandarins - The foreign factories at Canton - The Dutch The Americans - Restriction and evasion - The Topaze incident 3. Trade after the Company 20 The Superintendent of Trade - The Innes incident - Britons and Dutch excluded - American windfallThe Daniell incident - The Stanton incident - The First Opium War - Hong Kong 4. At Sea 28 A pretty sight - Naval ships - The Lintin Fleet - Piracy - Some other hazards Vll AN EAST INDIA COMPANY CEMETERY 5. Ashore - The Context 37 Spiritual arrangements - The chaplains - Learning Chinese - A health resort - Clinics - News - Personal mailMovement 6. Life Ashore 43 Ease - Chinnery and portraiture - Other personages - Women and children - Food and drinkLeisure in Hong Kong - Talk and horses - Music, theatre and dancing - Sickness - Poison 7. Death 58 The 1813 review of the Company's charter - Foreign burial in China - Problems of formality and the law - The chapel and the Old CemeteryThe New Protestant Cemetery - The site - The courtyard - The burial ground SECTION TWO 8. The Memorials 71 Memorial design and inscriptions - Memorial listings - Grouping of memorials 9. The Entries 77 Notes - The individual entries 1-166 10. The Stones in the Wall 265 A note - The entries 167-89 Chronology 273 Sources 276 List of Names 283 Index 286 VIll ...

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