The British presence in Macau, 1635-1793 / Rogério Miguel Puga ; translated by Monica Andrade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puga, Rogério Miguel.

Series:

Royal Asiatic Society books

Standardized Title:

Presenca inglesa e as relacões anglo-portuguesas em Macau (1635-1793). English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Colonies.

History.

Macau (China : Special Administrative Region)--History--17th century.

Macau (China : Special Administrative Region).

Macau (China : Special Administrative Region)--History--18th century.

Portugal--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Portugal.

International relations.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Portugal.

Portugal--Colonies--Asia--History--17th century.

Portugal--Colonies--Asia--History--18th century.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 208 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2013]

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 there. 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 through the establishment of factories at Canton, the beginnings of the opium trade to the Macartney Embassy of 1793. The British and Portuguese-longstanding allies in the West-pursued more complex relations in the East, as trading interests clashed under a Chinese imperial system and as the British increasingly asserted their power as "a community in search of a colony." Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Anglo-Portuguese conflicts and the founding of the East India Company 7

2 The voyage east: The beginning of Anglo-Portuguese relations in the East Indies 11

3 The arrival of the English in Macau 27

4 The beginning of regular East India Company trade with China 67

5 The gradual growth of the British presence in Macau in the early eighteenth century 75

6 Macau as a centre for Chinese control of the European "barbarians" 79

7 The visit of the Centurion 83

8 British relations and conflicts with the Portuguese and Chinese authorities in the second half of the eighteenth century 87

9 The "scramble for the use of Macau" 97

10 "Guests and old allies" 105

11 The importance of Macau for the British China trade 117

12 Lord Macartney's embassy to China, 1792-1794 123.

Notes:

"Originally published in Portuguese in 2009 as A presenca inglesa e as relacões anglo-portuguesas em Macau (1635-1793)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-199) and index.

ISBN:

9888139797

9789888139798

OCLC:

847885058

Publisher Number:

99954900240