Everything in Style: Harriett Low's MacauMacau in the 1820s and 1830s was the centre of life for foreigners trading with China through the only permitted gateway of Canton. To this European enclave on the China coast in 1829 came Harriett Low, a young American accompanying her aunt and uncle, atrader from Salem, Massachusetts. |
Contents
Macau Then and Now Old and Modern 5555 | 25 |
The Power of Religion | 57 |
The Daily Life of Foreign Women on the China Coast | 81 |
Matters of the Heart and of the Home | 131 |
Macau Canton and the China Trade | 167 |
Intercultural Relations in Early 19thCentury Macau | 203 |
Homeward Bound | 235 |
Biographical Data on Some of Harriett Lows Contemporaries | 281 |
Bibliography | 323 |
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