This house is not a home : European everyday life in Canton and Macao, 1730-1830 / Lisa Hellman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hellman, Lisa, author.

Series:

Studies in global social history ; Volume 34.

Studies in Global Social History ; Volume 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swedes--China--History--18th century.

Swedes.

Guangzhou (China)--Social life and customs--18th century.

Guangzhou (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

Lisa Hellman offers the first study of European everyday life in Canton and Macao. How foreigners could live, communicate, move around – even whom they could interaction with – were all things strictly regulated by the Chinese authorities. The Europeans sometimes adapted to, and sometimes subverted, these rules. Focusing on this conditional domesticity shows the importance of gender relations, especially the construction of masculinity. Using the Swedish East India Company, a minor European actor in an expanding Asian empire, as a point of entry highlights the multiplicity of actors taking part in local negotiations of power. The European attempts at making a home in China contributes to a global turn in everyday history, but also to an everyday turn in global history.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Figures

Abbreviations and Terminology

Entering Canton and Macao

The Who’s Who of Canton and Macao

Colin Campbell and the 1730s

A Space for Intersections

Michael Grubb and the 1750s and 1760s

The Communication Struggle

Olof Lindahl and the 1770s and 1780s

Spending Time and Spending Money

Anders Ljungstedt and the Early Nineteenth Century

Finding and Becoming Trustworthy Men

This House Is Not a Home.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-38454-5

OCLC:

1061817140

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004384545 DOI